Open Hearts (Elsker Dig For Evigt) (2002) Plot Summary

1. Open Hearts (Elsker Dig For Evigt) (2002) - PopMatters

  • 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 ...

  • The unfortunately titled Open Hearts may have a plot to match its daytime-TV moniker, but this new feature from the Dogme 95 collective turns out to be...

2. Open Hearts (Elsker Dig For Evigt, Denmark 2002)

  • 9 dec 2012 · Niels finds himself comforting Cecilie – and falling for her. Desperate to help Nikolaj, Cecilie finds herself rejected as he tries to come to ...

  • I’m looking forward to seeing Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt, a festival prizewinner starring Mads Mikkelsen. It’s Mikkelsen’s second major performance of the year, following …

3. Open Hearts | Rotten Tomatoes

  • Synopsis Cecilie (Sonja Richter) and Joachim (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) are engaged to be married, when tragedy strikes: Joachim is the victim of a car crash that robs ...

  • Cecilie (Sonja Richter) and Joachim (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) are engaged to be married, when tragedy strikes: Joachim is the victim of a car crash that robs him of the use of his legs. While at the hospital tending to Joachim, Cecilie meets Niels (Mads Mikkelsen), a doctor working there. As she leans on him for moral support, she discovers that his wife was responsible for Joachim's accident. The revelation doesn't stop their affair, which throws both their lives into upheaval.

4. Open Hearts (Elsker Dig For Evigt) | Reviews - Screen Daily

  • 24 sep 2002 · Torn up by guilt at the accident, Marie asks Niels, who works in the hospital where Joachim is being treated, to comfort Cecilie. Inadvertently ...

  • Dir: Susanne Bier. Denmark. 2002. 113 mins. Just when you thought the Dogme 95 movement was out of fashion, Susanne Bier (The One And Only, Once In A Lifetime) delivers Open Hearts, a knockout adult drama made according to the controversial Danish manifesto. Eliciting painfully true insights into human ...

5. Danish Cinema: Elsker dig for evigt (Open Hearts) film review

  • Bevat niet: (2002) | Resultaten tonen met:(2002)

  • Elsker dig for evigt (Love you Forever) is Susanne Bier’s first and only film under the Dogme 95 manifesto. It follows two couples in the aftermath of a car accident that changes their lives irrevocably.

6. Elsker Dig for Evigt (Film, 2002) - MovieMeter.nl

7. Open Hearts (2002) - MUBI

  • Synopsis. Cecilie and Joachim, a young couple in love, are soon to be married. But all of a sudden everything is turned upside down when Joachim is paralyzed ...

  • Cecilie and Joachim, a young couple in love, are soon to be married. But all of a sudden everything is turned upside down when Joachim is paralyzed in an accident, and Cecilie falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.

8. Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) - Reeling Reviews

  • Newlyweds-to-be Cecilie (Sonja Richter) and Joachim's (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) joyous life is snuffed out when he's mowed down by a car in a freak accident.

  • Newlyweds-to-be Cecilie (Sonja Richter) and Joachim's (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) joyous life is snuffed out when he's mowed down by a car in a freak accident. Joachim, paralyzed from the neck down, severs Cecilie from his side. She turns to Niels (Mads Mikkelsen, "Bleeder"), the doctor who, bearing the guilt of his wife Marie (Paprika Steen, "Mifune"), the vehicle's driver, came to console her as she awaited word of Joachim's condition. One accident, one split second, will reverberate through many "Open Hearts."

9. Open Hearts - MFF Karlovy Vary

  • Synopsis. Cecilie and Joachim are in love and are planning their future together ... Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt, 2002). . Contacts. Zentropa ...

  • The largest film festival in the Czech Republic and one of the oldest in Europe. Every year it presents some 200 films from around the world in competition and non-competition sections.

10. Open Hearts / Elsker Dig For Evigt - European Film Awards

  • Bevat niet: summary | Resultaten tonen met:summary

  • "What happens when everything we've taken for granted vanishes, the future suddenly rears up unpredictably in front of us, ^ and we no longer are in charge of our lives? Open Hearts is about four human beings and their sudden, unprepared-Jor encounter with the fragility of life and the power of love. Cecilie (Sonja Richter) and Joachim (Nikola) are young and in love. They are soon to get married and the have : their whole lives ahead of them. But men things go wrong and all of a sudden everything is transformed. Things change not only for Cecilie and Joachim but also for Marie (Paprika Steen) and Niels (Mads Mikkelsen). Marie and Niels are both in their late thirties. They're happily married and they have three children but [heir marriage is sorely tested when Niels falls passionately in love with Cecilie The question is whether Niles and Cecilie- are ready to give up eveiything for the sake of their love. One thing is for sure: nothing can ever be the same again ... OPEN HEARTS is about losing control, looking life in the face, and having the courage to go for the love of you life. Sometimes love is greatest when you least expect it."

11. Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt (Dogme #28)) - Cineuropa

  • international title: Open Hearts ; original title: Elsker dig for evigt (Dogme #28) ; country: Denmark ; year: 2002 ; genre: fiction.

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12. Open Hearts (2002) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

  • 28 feb 2003 · Cæcilie (Sonja Richter, making her feature debut) and Joachim (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) are in love; the film opens with his proposal to her, but ...

  • Elsker dig for evigt ***½/**** starring Sonja Richter, Mads Mikkelsen, Paprika Steen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas screenplay by Susanne Bier & Anders Thomas Jensen directed by Susanne Bier by Walter Chaw Susanne Bier’s first Dogme 95 film Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) is the Danish movement’s twenty-eighth and the second by a female director after last year’s Italian for Beginners. It reveals the austere, half-snooty/half-tongue-in-cheek manifesto as a surprisingly effective platform for a reinvention of the woman’s picture–a resurrection of the estrogen melodramas circa Mildred Pierce, the legitimizing of the soap opera genre fallen on disrepute since the invention of soaring…

13. Film review: Open Hearts (2002) - Moviesandsongs365

  • 28 jan 2011 · Open Hearts, or in Danish Elsker dig for evigt (translated: love you forever) has very good performances, especially Mads Mikkelsen impressed me ...

  • Observant lovers of film will know director Susanne Bier won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film on the 16th January for her most recent effort “In A Better World” (2010) and was nominate…

14. Elsker dig for evigt (Open Hearts) starring Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja ...

  • 25 sep 2012 · Cæcilie (Sonja Richter) has recently accepted the proposal of his live-in boyfriend Joachim (Nikolaj Lie Kaas). But shortly after Joachim is hit ...

  • A thorough and fun plot summary and review for the 2002 Danish movie Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) starring Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas.

15. Movie: Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) - sunshineofthetropics

  • 31 jul 2015 · A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the ...

  • A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident. – IMDb Di…

16. "Open Hearts" (Elsker dig for evigt) review (2003) Susanne Bier, Sonja ...

  • Newly engaged and adorably adoring of her rock-climber beau, a pretty young Copenhagen woman's life is thrown into despair and chaos when her lover is crushed ...

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17. Open Hearts: Closed Spaces - Slavoj Žižek - WordPress.com

  • 15 aug 2015 · I have seen so many Dogme films but I can wholeheartedly say that Open Hearts "Elsker dig for evigt" (2002) is my favorite and the closest ...

  • I have seen so many Dogme films but I can wholeheartedly say that Open Hearts “Elsker dig for evigt” (2002) is my favorite and the closest to my heart. Cecilie (Sonja Ritcher) is a cook…

18. BBC Gloucestershire Films - Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) Review

  • Love and existential angst is the order of the day, when a malign act of fate draws the happily married Niels (Mads Mikkelsen) towards a lonely twentysomething ...

  • BBC Gloucestershire films: Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) review.

19. Open Hearts - New Zealand International Film Festival

  • Open Hearts 2002. Elsker dig for evigt (Dogme 28). Directed by Susanne Bier ... characters as they struggle to cope with the circumstances inflicted on ...

  • Though the story that unfolds would not be out of place on lunchtime television, the emotional directness of superb actors and the close, observational style of director Suazanne Bier ensure that Open Hearts is more likely to remind you of the classic relationship movies Bergman was directing in the 70s.

20. Open Hearts (2002) — The Movie Database (TMDB)

  • Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin.

  • Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.

21. Open Hearts | Danish Film Institute - Det Danske Filminstitut

  • A young couple are looking forward to their wedding when an accident befalls them. You think your biggest problem today is going to get the shopping done ...

  • A young couple are looking forward to their wedding when an accident befalls them. You think your biggest problem today is going to get the shopping done and suddenly your fiancé gets run over. It's like a blade into your life, for better and for worse. The 'worse' is the event as it takes place; t

22. Open Hearts (2002) directed by Susanne Bier • Reviews, film + cast

  • Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin.

  • Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.

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