Susanne Bier

Independent har fået en række filmskabere og andre filmeksperter til at komme med bud på årets bedste film.

Blandt andet instruktøren Michael Caton-Jones, der har valgt Susanne Biers seneste danske film, Efter brylluppet.

Han skriver om filmen: »The Danish film After the Wedding, directed by Susanne Bier, is about an aid worker in India who works in an orphanage. He has to go back to Denmark to meet a wealthy businessman to raise some money to save the orphanage from closure. The potential benefactor invites him to his daughter’s wedding where a series of events unfold. It is an emotionally mature piece of storytelling for grown-ups. It has quite extraordinary performances from the lead cast: incredibly believable, real and honest. You think you are following the story but then it changes into something else. It is unusual to get a film where you don’t know how it is going to end. These days films are fairly straightforward and simplistic, but this film followed the way real life is. It is an amazing example of how you can take a bunch of human beings – with no explosions, no car chases – and make a riveting, life-changing piece of work.«

Og jeg må sige, at jeg er ganske enig med ham. Efter brylluppet, der godt nok havde dansk premiere i 2006, er en virkelig god og bevægende film med fantastiske præstationer fra alle de medvirkende, især Mads Mikkelsen og Stine Fischer Christensen.

Nu venter vi bare på Biers første amerikanske film, Things We Lost in the Fire, som har dansk premiere lige om lidt, 18. januar.

Blandt de øvrige film, som optræder på Independents liste, er De andres liv, Knocked Up og 4 måneder, 3 uger og 2 dage.