The Libation Bearers: Vinterberg Explores a Collective Mid-life Crisis in Boozy Black Comedy
Thomas Vinterberg returns to his favored motifs, experimental behavioral portraits of Danish microcosms in Another Round, which also reunites him with Mads Mikkelsen, the star of his grueling 2012 hit The Hunt. Curiously, educators are the representative milieu once again in an exploration of a group of male cohorts who decide to assuage their mid-life ennui through inspiration from an obscure philosopher who hypothesized humans were their best selves with a blood alcohol content of .05. The recipe for disaster shakes up their daily lives with an excitement long absent, resulting in both tragedy and necessary catharsis.…...
Thomas Vinterberg returns to his favored motifs, experimental behavioral portraits of Danish microcosms in Another Round, which also reunites him with Mads Mikkelsen, the star of his grueling 2012 hit The Hunt. Curiously, educators are the representative milieu once again in an exploration of a group of male cohorts who decide to assuage their mid-life ennui through inspiration from an obscure philosopher who hypothesized humans were their best selves with a blood alcohol content of .05. The recipe for disaster shakes up their daily lives with an excitement long absent, resulting in both tragedy and necessary catharsis.…...
- 12/3/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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