In this unusually powerful Scandinavian drama, Mikkelsen plays Jacob, a relief worker in India who makes a reluctant return home to Denmark. He has to court a billionaire (Rolf Lassgard) and persuade him to contribute a million dollars—and if he doesn't succeed, his orphanage will close and scores of kids will be left stranded. There, Jacob discovers that the man's wife (Sidse Babett Knudsen) is a former lover he hasn't seen in 20 years and the daughter being married off may be his own. "Basically, the film tells us that even the closest and most functional of families tend to be laced together by a web of secrets and, like a drama by O'Neill, Ibsen or Chekhov, the film's scenes progressively strip away those secrets." (Seattle Post Intelligencer) more at aftertheweddingmovie.com 35mm
2006, color, 2 hours, Denmark/Sweden