Tag Archives: Susanne Bier

After The Wedding (2006/2019) review — The original holds sway

August 23, 2019 flawintheiris

(2006) Directed by Susanne Bier | Written by Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen | 120 min Mads Mikkelsen puts his icy, Scandinavian reserve to work as Jacob, a Dane who has spent 20 years or more in India working with orphaned children. He returns to Copenhagen to meet with a philanthropic investor, a gruff, older… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix — February 2019

February 6, 2019 flawintheiris

Velvet Buzzsaw A deliciously trashy art world satire/horror from Dan Gilroy, the filmmaker behind Nightcrawler and Roman J. Israel. , a picture with a lot more of the edge and unease of the former rather than the prestige aspirations of the latter. It tells the story of a shallow, ambitious, group of nasties; the delightfully named Morf Vandewalt (another… Read More

Serena review — Melodrama with a Capital “M”

December 8, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Susanne Bier, written by Christopher Kyle adapting a book by Ron Rash If Serena was in Danish or French, I think the film would be garnering a lot more positive reviews than it is. In English we just don't have as much time for this kind of a story, with characters' emotions raging… Read More

Summer 2013 Movie Preview

May 2, 2013 flawintheiris

The first thing I want to tell you is this is by no means a comprehensive list of all the movies coming out between the beginning of May and the end of August.What you'll find here are movies I have some measure of feeling about, based on what I've read and heard. There will be… Read More

The Atlantic Film Festival 2012: Love Is All You Need, Antiviral and Tuesday

September 18, 2012 flawintheiris

Love Is All You Need is exactly the kind of romantic comedy Hollywood has almost entirely forgotten how to make. It gave me a rush, for both it's delicate balance of realism and sentiment and from sheer recognition of a beloved genre that I've missed: oh, yeah, this is how it's done when it's done… Read More