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    'After The Wedding' There'll Be Dinner, Dancing And Dire Revelations

    Bart Freundlich's gender-flipped remake of a twisty Danish film is glossy, slick and strangely sedate.
    by Mark Jenkins Aug 08, 2019 2 minutes
    Chicken or Beef? Michelle Williams (left) and Julianne Moore (right) star in <em>After the Wedding, </em>a gender-swapped remake of an Oscar-nominated 2006 Danish drama.

    American filmmaker Bart Freundlich's equal-opportunity remake of Danish director Susanne Bier's switches the genders of the central characters, yielding plum roles for two superb actresses: Julianne Moore (who is Freundlich's spouse) and Michelle Williams. But since the premise of Bier's 2006 drama turns on motherhood, the main effect of the shift is to heighten the story's contrivance.

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