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Danish director returned to his indie roots amid personal tragedy to make his most life-affirming film, an Oscar contender for both best director and international feature.
Thomas Vinterberg: Another Round is about living as opposed to just existing 1 minute read By David Villafranca Los Angeles, United States, Apr 17 (EFE).- A movie about alcohol, but most of all about life. This is what is served up by director Thomas Vinterberg in Another Round, a story of four friends who embark on a quest of always being at least a little bit drunk at all times, and one tipped to fare well in this year’s Academy Awards. Another Round (Druk, in Danish, or “binge drinking”) is vying for two coveted Oscars — Best Director and Best International Feature.
Rolling Stone The Year of Magical Drinking: Mads Mikkelsen and Thomas Vinterberg on ‘Another Round’ The filmmaker and star of the Oscar-nominated Danish film open up on the origins of their alcohol-soaked tragicomedy, the art of acting “drunk,” and that climactic dance sequence By Samuel Goldwyn Films If you’ve heard about Another Round, the Oscar-nominated Danish film starring Mads Mikkelsen, you probably know about the Dance. It happens at the end of writer-director Thomas Vinterberg’s tragicomedy about four middle-aged high school teachers who attempt an exper...
Director Thomas Vinterberg and actor Mads Mikkelsen on the Danish dark comedy up for two Academy Awards this year.
Print Oscar-nominated Danish director Thomas Vinterberg imagined an early version of his international-feature Oscar nominee “Another Round” in 2013 while batting around ideas with cowriter Tobias Lindholm. “We originally thought about making a movie that was solely a celebration of alcohol,” Vinterberg says from his Copenhagen home. “Then we realized we’ve known too many families destroyed by alcohol to not tell the dark side of drinking as well. But we did not yet have the engine for the story.” That engine came a few years later courtesy of Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skårde...