There are certain foreign films that do so well that naturally American filmmakers want to remake them in English. When this happens multiple times to the same director, they’re doing something right. This is the case with Susanne Bier, who hails from Denmark and is the talent behind the original movies Brothers, which was remade 5 years later with Natalie Portman and Jake Gyllenhaal, and Open Hearts, which Zach Braff wanted to adapt and direct an English version of for years. She has since had moderate success in English language films herself, making the Halle Berry feature Things We Lost in the Fire in 2007, and is helming the upcoming reunion between Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, Serena. She also won an Oscar for her 2010 film In a Better World.
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