After the Wedding (Movie)

After the Wedding is a modern creation with a classic theme involving haves and have-nots, bloodlines and family ties. Life's a mess, it says, but you can't sweep up the dirt until you've taken a good, hard look at it.

Mikkelsen plays a Dane who resides in India, helping its poor children with food, company, etc. Soon enough, he has to return to Denmark for what he believes will be a dog-and-pony show with some rich guy in order to drum up funds for the Mikkelsens work in India. The story starts to unfold at this point, the director using many effective close-ups of faces (and particularly eyes, both alive and not) to bring home the core point that there are people to be helped everywhere, and not just in the poorer communities of the world.

Beautiful images and words throughout, with a plot that all told is probably not what you think it is.