Weddings
9 Episodes
With wedding season upon us, take a walk down the aisle of some of cinema’s most unforgettable nuptials. Focusing on the lead-up to and spectacle of the big day itself, these films dramatize the often-conflicting dreams, desires, and fears that bring two people together before the altar, with directors like Sofia Coppola (MARIE ANTOINETTE), Jonathan Demme (RACHEL GETTING MARRIED), and Lars von Trier (MELANCHOLIA) examining the emotional ambivalence and intersecting familial expectations surrounding the main event. Replete with will-they-won’t-they romantic tension, simmering family drama, and extravagant mise-en-scène, these films look past the pageantry to reveal the fractures that underpin the promise of “happily ever after.”
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00:53Episode 1Weddings Teaser
Episode 1
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2:02:57Episode 2Marie Antoinette
Episode 2
Directed by Sofia Coppola • 2006 • France, United States, Japan
Starring Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy DavisSofia Coppola brings Converse sneakers and a dreamy synth-pop soundtrack to eighteenth-century Versailles for this exuberantly subversive, extravagantly stylized anti-biopic of o...
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2:15:29Episode 3Melancholia
Episode 3
Directed by Lars von Trier • 2011 • Denmark, Sweden, France
Starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander SkarsgårdIn this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst, winner of the Best Actress prize at Cannes) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating ...
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1:45:35Episode 4Muriel’s Wedding
Episode 4
Directed by P. J. Hogan • 1994 • Australia
Starring Toni Collette, Bill Hunter, Rachel GriffithsThe perfect marriage of feel-good comedy and heartfelt drama, MURIEL’S WEDDING is the beloved Australian hit that launched the careers of Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths and put ABBA back on the c...
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A Wedding
Episode 5
Directed by Robert Altman • 1978 • United States
Starring Desi Arnaz Jr., Carol Burnett, Geraldine ChaplinRobert Altman’s penchant for sprawling ensemble play and genre revisionism led him naturally to put his own iconoclastic spin on the wedding comedy. Here he wrangles perhaps the most expans...
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1:52:43Episode 6Rachel Getting Married
Episode 6
Directed by Jonathan Demme • 2008 • United States
Starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill IrwinWhen Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister, Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt), she brings a long history of personal demons, family conflict, and tragedy ...
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1:42:46Episode 7Wedding in White
Episode 7
Directed by William Fruet • 1972 • Canada
Starring Carol Kane, Donald Pleasence, Doris PetrieA harrowing family tragedy plays out with unflinching naturalism in this at once relentlessly raw and deeply compassionate tale of innocence lost, winner of the 1972 Canadian Film Award for Best Feature...
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1:32:30Episode 8The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Episode 8
Directed by Jacques Demy • 1964 • France
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Nino CastelnuovoThe angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a h...
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1:37:30Episode 9Golden Eighties
Episode 9
Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1986 • Belgium, France
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Fanny Cottençon, Pascale SalkinThe exuberant enchantments of the singing, dancing musical meet the feminist, formalist sensibility of cinematic visionary Chantal Akerman in this uniquely captivating vision of love an...
