{"id":8613,"date":"2020-12-05T11:21:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T16:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8613"},"modified":"2020-12-05T11:21:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T16:21:25","slug":"review-another-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8613","title":{"rendered":"Review: ANOTHER ROUND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fun drinking tale tinged with melancholy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Building on Churchill\u2019s quote, \u201cI never drink before breakfast,\u201d renowned Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg mounts the seriocomic \u201cAnother Round.\u201d It\u2019s both a how-to and a how not to, tale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plot is inspired by Norwegian psychologist Finn Sk\u00e5rderud\u2019s theory that a man is born with a 0.5 blood alcohol deficit (in the US, likely a .05 BAC). Vinterberg and his writing collaborator Tobias Lindholm weave a sometimes funny story about four high school teachers who take up the skilled art of day-drinking. Joining them in this endeavor are talented actors Mads Mikkelsen and Thomas Bo Larsen, both worked with Vinterberg and Lindholm on the Oscar-nominated 2013 film \u201cThe Hunt.\u201d There\u2019s much more light-hearted fun in this movie while also retaining some of the melancholy that marks Vinterberg\u2019s best work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the movie, Mikkelsen (we could call him the great \u201cMads,\u201d right?) plays Martin, a once-promising teacher headed for a Ph.D. and esteemed research studies. But as the years ticked by, and family pressures took priority, Martin fell into a rut, ebbing through his life. After a wake-up call from a parent-teacher conference (with more than one parent and student in attendance), Martin haplessly asks his wife, Anika (Maria Bonnevie) if she thinks he\u2019s boring. She finesses the answer.

Read the rest of Jonathan’s review online and in print in the Times-Herald: https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2020\/12\/another-round-fun-drinking-tale-tinged-with-melancholy<\/a>

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Denmark’s Academy Award submission features the re-teaming of Vinterberg and Mikkelsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1097,2007,2008],"class_list":["post-8613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-foreign-language","tag-mads-mikkelsen","tag-thomas-vinterberg","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8616,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions\/8616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}