After the Wedding
After the Wedding is one of the best films of the decade for its fierce slant on loyalty, family, personal history, the goodness that can be brought out in people during tremendous hardship. This Danish movie Hollywood does not know how to make. After The Wedding contains deep hope and pain in the same passages, in the same timespace. The stakes are so high in this story that it could have been a campy disaster, but director Susanne Bier has great vision. The acting is brilliant, the writing is superb, the experience is unforgettable, a remarkable cinematic achievement.