After the Wedding

A man running an orphanage in India is summoned to Denmark by a mysterious benefactor who wants to finance his work. At the benefactor's daughter's wedding, Jacob recognizes someone from his past — and everything that follows is constructed from that recognition. Susanne Bier at her most precise: the plot is built with clockwork tension from entirely domestic materials, and it keeps revealing new layers until the final scene. Oscar nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.