Although this is billed as a romantic comedy, there are many less than comedic elements in the plot. Set in Denmark and in Sorrento, Italy, the basic story involves a wedding and the families of the bride and the groom. The dialogue is both in Danish and English, which makes it less hurried in that you don’t have to be reading subtitles constantly. The photography of the Italian scenery is beautifully done.
Pierce Brosnan plays an Englishman living in Denmark. His estranged son is marrying Trine Dyrholm’s daughter at Brosnan’s home in the Sorrento countryside. Brosnan and Dyrholm do an exceptional job in bringing their characters to life. This could have easily been a soap-opera kind of film, but the Danish director Susanne Bier was able to make a good movie that is about adults facing their problems and making changes before it is too late.