Italy’s Paolo Sorrentino and Denmark’s Thomas Vinterberg first met years ago when the directors’ respective films “The Great Beauty” and “The Hunt” were both nominated for the 2014 Foreign Language Film Oscar, which Sorrentino’s pic won.
Vinterberg was the only colleague on the awards circuit whom Sorrentino was really fond of, he recalls in an online conversation organized by British trade org. Directors U.K., video excerpts of which Variety has been given exclusive access to. And the feeling was mutual. Vinterberg “was really happy to see me happy when I won,” he says.
It’s clear that now Sorrentino would like to see Vinterberg win the renamed Best International Feature Oscar for “Another Round,” his nominated tragicomedy in which four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood.
In their free-flowing...
Vinterberg was the only colleague on the awards circuit whom Sorrentino was really fond of, he recalls in an online conversation organized by British trade org. Directors U.K., video excerpts of which Variety has been given exclusive access to. And the feeling was mutual. Vinterberg “was really happy to see me happy when I won,” he says.
It’s clear that now Sorrentino would like to see Vinterberg win the renamed Best International Feature Oscar for “Another Round,” his nominated tragicomedy in which four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood.
In their free-flowing...
- 4/1/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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