After the Wedding is a moving family drama by Dutch filmmaker Susan Bier. It stars the intense Mads Mikkelsen, who played the evil poker opponent in Casino Royal, as Jakob Petersen an Indian NGO orphanage operator who has to return to Copenhagen to meet with a philanthropic CEO who wants to fund the orphanage. Once he returns he asked to by the CEO to attend the wedding of his daughter while he is visiting. This event leads to a collision course with his past as discovers that the CEO’s wife is his ex-lover from more than 20 years past and that their daughter is actually his biological daughter. This is further complicated by the CEO’s eccentric demands that Jacob run a trust with his daughter and remains in Copenhagen, which causes distress for Jacob who has raised a small boy in India that he feels responsible for. The CEO has his reason for such an arrangement, other dramas play out in this emotional film with several stand out performances. I don't want to elborate any more on the plot for fear of spoiling the drama. It was the Dutch entry for this year’s Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film, which has turned out to be an exceptional year with the other impressive nominations, including the winner The Lives of Others, as well as Pan's Labyrinth and Days of Glory.
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