True to Dogme form, the movie prizes emotional involvement above all else. More nimble than its chamber piece setup might suggest, Open Hearts is an altogether engrossing experience. Meanwhile, Niels contends with his shaken wife, Marie (Paprika Steen), who, flush with guilt, urges him to see Cecilie as often as possible. Joachim, she learns soon after, will never walk again he, in anguish, asks her to disappear from his life. He gives Cecilie his cell phone number and tells her to call him anytime if she needs to talk. Waiting for word on her fiancé’s condition, Cecilie is approached by Niels (Mads Mikkelsen), a doctor at the hospital - and the husband of the woman behind the wheel. So much for foreshadowing: the next scene finds Joachim kissing Cecilie goodbye, then suddenly getting run over by a speeding car as he’s about to cross the street. Rugged Joachim (Nicolaj Lie Kaas) pops the question to radiant Cecilie (Sonja Richter) at a candlelit dinner pro forma scenes of blissful intimacy follow, as does a mini-spat about Joachim’s impending rock-climbing trip. Opening as it does with a marriage proposal, director Susanne Bier’s tearjerker practically telegraphs the inevitable fall. Denmark’s entry for the Academy Award’s foreign language film category (it didn’t make the final cut) is a gently humanist melodrama that fulfills the manifesto’s promise of emotional immediacy, if not quite remaining loyal to its antibourgeois spirit. Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings.Elsker_dig_for_evigt Fandoms: Thor (Movies) RPF
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