| Brief Description: | Acclaimed Danish director Susanne Bier crafted this Academy Award-nominated drama about a foreign aid worker, Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen, Casino Royale), stationed at an impoverished orphanage in Mumbai. He returns home to Denmark to meet with a wealthy potential sponsor, Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard), who invites him to his daughter's wedding. There, deep family secrets, shattering confessions, and entrenched class conflicts come to the surface. In Dogme fashion, the film was shot by hand in DV, heightening the already exhilarating plot with the kinetic camerawork. "Powerful...Emotionally complex and gripping" (Allan Hunter, Screen International). In Danish with English subtitles. |
