After the Wedding (2006)

Jacob (Mads Mikkelson -- still looking wax figurelike as he did in Casino Royale, but now with dry eyes and mussy hair) is a humanitarian in a struggling Indian orphanage who's forced, against his wishes, to represent the orphanage in a meeting with a potential benefactor in Denmark -- he'd prefer to stay and do the work and let someone else take care of liaison duties.

The Denmark happenings feel, at first, too hugely coincidental. Though beautifully performed, the story felt manufactured and, therefore, weak. But the deeper in we get, the more we understand and it's just profoundly affecting.

I loved the simple truth of the entanglements of life: the way you suddenly can be trapped into doing something -- even being something -- you didn't choose.

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