After the Wedding: Are all Swedish Films this Sad??

The only other Swedish film I remember seeing is Lilya 4 Ever and it was incredibly depressing. This one isn't nearly as bad but still very sad. Both good films though.

After the Wedding has a deeply involved and personal story. It covers life and death, love, family bonds and bonds we create with non-family just through being human. The main character has to decide whether to leave the orphanage he built along with all the orphans that he loves or to stay in Sweden and help take care of the daughter he never knew he had along with her mother and her mother's two young boys. Their dying father leaves 12 million to the orphanage if he stays with them because he wants someone to take care of his family. Now I know the love of family (blood relations) but I also know that I wouldn't be able to up and leave the family that I had found elsewhere. He even raised a boy there in the orphanage. The little boy, in the end, says that he is happy staying in India and seeing him on visits. But really...I guess you could argue that the boy, growing up in a situation where one must deal with the reality of no parents to love them that they grow accustomed to this, but he was still young enough not to be ok with losing such an attachment. I would never leave that little boy even if I had just found out I had a child elsewhere. But I've never been in that situation and I am sure it is a tough one. And that is just one aspect of this drama.

I might also add that I could do without the music. Its quite obnoxious.