Susanne Bier is best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding, In a Better World, and Bird Box, and the TV miniseries The Night Manager on AMC, The Undoing on HBO, and The First Lady on Showtime.
19 Facts About Susanne Bier
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Susanne Bier was born to a Jewish family in Copenhagen, Denmark on 15 April 1960.
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In interviews for the media as an adult, Susanne Bier describes herself as lacking in social skills as a child, who liked to play football with boys and preferred reading books to interacting with others.
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Acutely observed and beautifully written by Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen, the film is a perceptive and painful exploration of broken lives and interconnected tragedies.
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Susanne Bier is signed as a commercial director with international production company, SMUGGLER.
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Susanne Bier returned to taboo subjects with the film The One and Only in 1999.
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Out of the four collaborations between Jensen and Susanne Bier, he considered In a Better World to be the one most similar to Jensen's solo films and compared the combination of biblical themes and high entertainment value to Jensen's 2005 film Adam's Apples.
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In 2012, Susanne Bier directed Love Is All You Need, Lit.
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In 2014, Susanne Bier directed Serena, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by American author Ron Rash.
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In 2014, Susanne Bier directed A Second Chance, a Danish thriller film.
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Susanne Bier directed the TV series The Undoing, which premiered on HBO in October 2020 and starred Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.
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Susanne Bier often raises questions about how far one would go for a child is in distress, if social services appear to be unable or unwilling to help, and the limits one exceeds to get their own desires fulfilled.
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Susanne Bier's films have a common visual code - all of them are filmed in a shoulder camera, and emotional peaks use extreme close-ups of eyes, lips, and fingers.
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Susanne Bier's films are characterized by the fact that, despite their tragic structure, there is a "flattening" of the dramatic events, or, alternatively, no dramatization of the major events.
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Originally, Susanne Bier imagined herself married to a nice Jewish man with six children.
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Susanne Bier later decided that she wanted to pursue a career.
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Susanne Bier has been married twice and has two children, Gabriel and Alice.
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Susanne Bier never wants to alienate her audience, that it is always key to "have an ability to communicate".
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Susanne Bier was married to Swedish actor and director Philip Zanden.