Review: “After the Wedding” is the kind of well-appointed, morality-minded adult soap that once had pride of place throughout an earlier Hollywood era’s movie year.
Handsome, earnest and reserved, despite a succession of soul-rattling character revelations, “After the Wedding” is the kind of well-appointed, morality-minded adult soap that once had pride of place throughout an earlier Hollywood era’s movie year. Now it’s sneaking in amid the whizbang tentpoles with its measured tones and big-theme professionalism, like someone in evening wear wandering an arcade hoping to lure someone away for an important talk.
Williams plays dedicated altruist Isabel , who at the beginning is a do-gooder struggling to keep her cash-strapped orphanage in India from collapsing.
But in too many scenes Freundlich prefers the arch heaviness of pained expressions in posh surroundings when what you’re waiting for is the messiness of humans letting fly after their careful worlds have been upended. When one character, jarred by memory-reconfiguring information, ventures to Isabel’s hotel and says, “I have so many questions,” you’re gearing up for a corker of a talk, but instead they look at each other intently, then make plans to meet later.
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