Wedding in Denmark (by Tobias and Violeta)

Yesterday we went to the cinema to see a film which started in Germany some weeks ago. It is normal that the movie-theatres remove the films to a smaller auditorium after a certain time… So we sat there in a really small theatre, with a really small screen and saw a beamer-screening - Bad luck!

Good luck - the film was very good: AFTER THE WEDDING by the Danish directress Susanne Bier. It is the story of Jacob (played by the great Mads Mikkelsen) who directs an orphanage and an educational project for street children in Bombay. He returns to Denmark to negotiate a donation. The disposed donator, Jørgen (Rolf Lassgard - also very, very good acting), invites him to the wedding of his daughter and there comes out that Jacob is the biological father of the bride because he was her mother´s early love… From Jacob´s appearance on everything goes haywire: The daughter, Anna, gets to know her genitor, Jacob becomes angry because nobody told him about his fatherhood, the mother, Helene, doubts if she is still in love with Jacob, a few days after the wedding Anna´s husband is cheating on her, Jørgen is sick to death and blackmails Jacob with an agreement that prescribes his removal to Denmark…

In the end this family-tragedy, shot in that Dogma-camera-style (a light variant of it), seems to be a bit too ambitious. The story ends up a bit too uncomplicated.
Nevertheless it is a quite impressive film - with a remarkable cuuuuuuute little Indian boy in a minor role.

Only the terrible sound from the beamer in that far too small cinema with the uncomfortable seats (T: for people with long legs) was annoying.
Für die Berliner: versucht die Filme im schönen Babylon in Mitte zu sehen, bevor sie in deren kleinsten Studio-Saal verschoben werden…