Susanne Bier will discuss her HBO limited series “The Undoing” at the next Girls Club event. The conversation will take place Tuesday, October 27, at 4 p.m. EST and is open to the public. Be sure to register in advance.
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Find Girls Club event details, “The Undoing’s” synopsis and trailer, and Bier’s bio below.
Synopsis: From writer David E. Kelley (“Big Little Lies”) and director Susanne Bier (“The Night Manager”), the new limited series focuses on Nicole Kidman’s Grace Fraser, a successful therapist, and her devoted husband, Jonathan (Hugh Grant), and their young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. A chasm opens in Grace’s seemingly perfect life: a violent death, a missing spouse, and a chain of terrible revelations.
Bio: Though Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Emmy Award-winning writer and director Susanne Bier’s films often play out against a wide-reaching global backdrop, their focus is intimate, carefully exploring the explosive emotions and complexities of familial bonds. This unique combination is part of the formula that has made her Denmark’s leading female filmmaker and a powerhouse worldwide.
Bier’s 2010 film “In a Better World” won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011, as well as an Italian Golden Globe Award for Best European Film and Best Director at the European Film Awards.
In 2007, Bier directed the award-winning “Things We Lost in the Fire,” starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro, her first English-language film. Prior to this, as a writer/director she had helmed the multi-award-winning “After the Wedding” (2006), which was also an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, and “Brothers” (2004), which won, among others, the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and at the Boston Independent Film Festival.
In 2002, Bier directed “Open Hearts,” shot in accordance with the Dogme ’95 filmmaking aesthetic. The film won numerous awards, including the Audience Award at the Robert Festival (Danish Academy Award) and the International Film Critics’ Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Bier also co-wrote and directed the romantic comedy “The One and Only” (1999), which won Best Film at the Danish Robert Awards and was the most watched domestic film in Denmark in 20 years, with one-fifth of the country’s population having seen it at the cinema.
In 2012, Bier made her triumphant return to the genre with the 2013 winner of the European Film Award for Best Comedy, “Love Is All You Need,” starring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm. In 2014, Bier directed “A Second Chance,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Bier won the Emmy Award for directing the six-part mini-series “The Night Manager” (2016), starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, based on the 1993 novel of the same name by John le Carré. In 2018, Bier directed Netflix’s thriller “Bird Box,” starring Sandra Bullock.
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