Thomas Vinterberg. Mads Mikkelsen. You put those two together and good things are bound to happen. The Danish pair last teamed up for 2012’s Oscar-nominated drama The Hunt, and now they’re back for something very different. Another Round was recently chosen as an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, and a trailer has been released which gives the impression it could be a fun, light-hearted comedy, but that turns out not to be the case.
Another Round stars Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang as a group of friends who decide that life might be better under a constant state of intoxication. We’ve all heard of “liquid courage”, right? Perhaps it’ll help them loosen up, and thus make all of the problems life throws at them easier to take? It’s an interesting experiment, but what happens when they start to depend on alcohol too much and their lives totally fall apart?
Vinterberg is behind the camera, his first movie since 2018’s submarine disaster film Kursk. He also co-wrote the script with his usual collaborator Tobias Lindholm.
