After the Wedding (2019)
Directed by Bart Freundlich
Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignites a series of events in which the past collides with the present while mysteries unravel.
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A sort of combination of those ideas is present in But Freundlich’s adaptation of Susanne Bier’s (the woman behind Bird Box) After the Wedding, in which questions about philanthropy, good intentions, and romantic honesty are all under consideration.
After the Wedding is based on a 2006 Danish film of the same name (directed by Susanne Bier, who later became known for Netflix’s Bird Box ).
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Susanne Bier — may be known more for her work on the Netflix film that recently went viral — Bird Box than her Academy-Award winning Danish film In A Better World.
The film is adapted from the 2006 film by Susanne Bier ( Brothers ; In a Better World ; Bird Box ), and serves as a prime example of how remakes should be done in that it introduces something fresh and creative to the original’s story.
After the Wedding is a remake of Bird Box director Susanne Bier’s 2006 movie of the same name, and while I haven’t seen that version, this one is a muddled melodrama that never comes together in satisfying fashion.
The female characters are the least interesting thing in the original version of “After the Wedding,” an otherwise exceptional, Oscar-nominated Danish drama from “Bird Box” director Susanne Bier.
Consider such inspired knockoffs as La Cage aux Folles , reborn as The Birdcage , and Plein Soleil ( Purple Noon ) revisited in The Talented Mr. Ripley .
A surprise arthouse hit, the original Danish After the Wedding earned a 2007 Oscar nod for Best Foreign Language Film and helped introduce American audiences to the severe Scandi charisma of Mads Mikkelsen, future star of Doctor Strange and TV’s Hannibal .