An unusually amiable narrative film in which feelings take precedence over plot, Efter brylluppet transcends its contrivances to suggest how unexpected circumstances can shift our souls and cause us to leave important pieces of our lives behind. Directed by Susanne Bier from Anders Thomas Jensen’s script, which is based on Bier’s original story, this Danish […]
Daily Archives: December 5, 2007
Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, who won an Oscar, give thin, obvious, oversized performances in this, a vaguely comical social melodrama and insignificant murder mystery clumsily tailored to suit the contrived confrontation between a northern cop stranded in the south (“They call me Mister Tibbs!”) and a southern redneck cop. This mess of a movie, […]
Dennis Grunes 