The surprisingly unconventional original Danish v of After the Wedding

Susanne Bier's Danish-language film After the Wedding (2006) has been remade in English w/ some major plot twists; the remake has gotten tepid reviews at best (as one would expect - these attempts to Anglicize and cash in on small budget "foreign"-language films never seem to work), but I went back to the original version last night - I'd seen it more than a decade ago and hardly remember it - and was struck by how good this film was in its original (all of us watching agreed, btw). In brief the story concerns a 40-something man (Mads Mikkelsen) devoted to his life's mission of running an orphanage in Mumbai (called Bombay in this film) who gets summoned (home) to Denmark at the request of a philanthropist who wants to make a major donation but wants to meet the head of the enterprise face to face first. The philanthropist (Rolf Lassgard) invites Mikkelsen to his daughter's wedding, and it turns out that Mikkelsen has had a relationship w/ Lassgard's wife (Sidse Babett Knudsen) - all three in epic performances. I won't give any of the plot points away except to say that there are many surprises and, unlike most movies full of arbitrary and manipulative twists and turns and coincidences, all of plot twists are credible within the plot and deepen our knowledge of the characters. Any attempt to predict where this movie is headed will derail - it seems at many points to be headed toward a romcom drama, but it's always a step ahead of us and it always seems to find a way to defy convention: props to Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen on the screenplay. I'd encourage anyone thinking about seeing the English-language remake to see this original version instead or at least in addition.