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If you’re keeping up with all the new releases from the Sundance Film Festival, you’ve got your work cut out for you in August. With 17 films coming to theaters and streaming platforms (including a host of award winners), you could watch one every other day for the entire month, and then some. After the Wedding, featuring stars like Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore, is just one of them.
Film still courtesy of After the Wedding
Isabel (Michelle Williams) has dedicated her life to working with the children in an orphanage in Calcutta. Theresa (Julianne Moore) is the multimillionaire head of a media company who lives with her handsome artist husband (Billy Crudup) and their two adorable twin boys in New York. When word comes to Isabel of a mysterious and generous grant for the financially struggling orphanage, she must travel to New York to meet the benefactor—Theresa—in person. And when Isabel is spontaneously invited to Theresa’s daughter’s wedding, Isabel discovers a connection to Theresa that takes her on an unexpected journey into her own past. Based on the Academy Award–nominated film by Susanne Bier.
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Directed by Bart Fruendlich, After the Wedding isn’t the first we’ve seen of power duo Fruendlich and Moore. The two first met on the set of The Myth of Fingerprints, which premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, then a few years later with World Travelerat the 2002 Sundance Film Festival (seen above celebrating Fruendlich’s 27th birthday). They married shortly after in 2003 and have been together ever since, acting and directing side by side.
SeeAfter the Wedding playing in select theaters now and more Sundance Film Festival releases here.
Movie Review: “After the Wedding” is a Droopy Disappointment
After the Wedding feels like a movie that lost its focus in its final phases. The premise is touching and could have led to a compelling emotional drama if the script had been reworked and reshaped. Instead, the film uses cheesy horror-type music to amp up tension that just isn’t there.
Isabel (Michelle Williams) is a woman who has…
