Another Round

In what is truly the best premise ever, Thomas Vinterburg’s ANOTHER ROUND is about four high school teachers in Denmark who start drinking alcohol every day to make up for a supposed alcohol deficiency in humans (read: to see if it cures their mid-life crises). Mads Mikkelsen, everyone’s favorite Bond villain, stars as a history teacher whose classes become, admittedly, a lot more interesting when he starts boozing at work. While this all sounds comedic, I’ll say that the movie becomes increasingly hard to watch and sad as it goes on. But it all builds to a really beautiful and cathartic final scene that makes it all worth it! It reminds me of Claire Denis’ BEAU TRAVAIL for any fans out there…

—Bennett Levine, Executive Assistant