Another Round Movie Review: Mads Mikkelsen s Film Is An Intoxicating Brew
Another Round Movie Review: Mads Mikkelsen s Film Is An Intoxicating Brew
Another Round Movie Review: Mikkelsen s principal co-actors - Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang and Lars Ranthe - are just as steady when they act drunk and out of control in the film s most crucial scenes.
Mads Mikkelsen in a still from the film (courtesy theofficialmads)
(Beginning a series of reviews of the frontrunners for the Best International Film Oscar. Fifteen films have made it to the next round of voting that will take place between March 5 and 10. The Oscar nominations are due to be announced on March 15 and the ceremony is scheduled for April 25.)
Another Round stars Mads Mikkelsen as a middle-aged high-school history teacher experimenting with daytime drinking
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Director Thomas Vinterberg was intrigued by famous figures, including Winston Churchill and Ernest Hemingway, who accomplished great things while under the influence of alcohol.
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What if there were a magical elixir you could drink that would make all your troubles disappear? In the acclaimed Danish tragicomedy Another Round, that s the dream tempting Martin, Mads Mikkelsen s (Hannibal, Casino Royale) high-school history teacher, as he stares down the barrel of middle age.
Many men have been transformed on-screen by miracle formulas from Jerry Lewis discovering his slick alter ego in The Nutty Professor to Cary Grant in Monkey Business, suddenly skittering about town with Marilyn Monroe on his arm.
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I DRINK, THEREFORE I AM Mikkelsen finds an intellectual justification for binge drinking in Vinterberg s dark comedy Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming and not always easy to sort through. This week, I watched director-cowriter Thomas Vinterberg s
Another Round, Denmark s official submission to the Best International Feature Film category at the 2021 Academy Awards. Along with nine other potential Oscar contenders, it s playing at the Vermont International Film Foundation s Virtual Cinema through February 18.
The deal Four friends who teach at the same high school, Martin (Mads Mikkelsen), Nikolaj (Magnus Millang), Peter (Lars Ranthe) and Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen), are well into the don t-give-a-damn stage of their careers. Martin, in particular, is so depressed and aimless that he bumbles through his history le
Movie review: Another Round
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Dominic Corry is an entertainment writer and film critic based in Los Angeles.@DominicCorry Actor Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal) and filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (Festen), Danish collaborators on the amazing 2012 film The Hunt, reteam for this alternately joyous and mordant movie about the alarming approach some friends employ to tackle mid-life malaise.
Mikkelsen stars as Martin, one of four high school teachers lamenting the lack of lustre in their lives. When one cites a psychiatrist who theorised that humans are born with a blood alcohol content deficiency, they all agree to follow his teachings and proceed to microdose booze throughout the work day, maintaining a low level of intoxication in the name of loosening up and embracing life.