After the Wedding
After the Wedding
After the Wedding
Directed by:
Bart FreundlichCinematography:
Julio MacatComposer:
Mychael DannaCast:
Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, Will Chase, Eisa Davis, Doris McCarthy, Abby Quinn, Azhy Robertson, Susan Blackwell, Alex Esola, Alex Cranmer (more)Plots(1)
Isabel (Michelle Williams) has dedicated her life to working with the children in an orphanage in Calcutta. Theresa (Julianne Moore) is the multimillionaire head of a media company who lives with her handsome artist husband (Billy Crudup) and their two adorable twin boys in New York. When word comes to Isabel of a mysterious and generous grant for the financially struggling orphanage, she must travel to New York to meet the benefactor - Theresa - in person. And when Isabel is spontaneously invited to Theresa’s daughter’s wedding, Isabel discovers a connection to Theresa that takes her on an unexpected journey into her own past. (Sundance Film Festival)
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An American remake of a Danish film, essentially a copy thereof, except that the genders are switched and, most importantly, this time it is US dollars that save poor children in Indian orphanages. The emotional melodrama about the differences in the problems of the First and Third Worlds, about securing a future for those you care about, and about deciding whether to give preference to your own child over other children who also need your help, depends significantly more on the adapted script and quality actors than the film’s average direction, which does not add much value to the original material. The characters hide various secrets from each other, which you can usually guess before they are revealed, and instead of exposing family relationships, a more significant component of the film seems to be numerous sentimental encounters and weeping farewells.
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