I know it's been out in various territories since September last year but I saw it in the cinema tonight in a preview screening ahead of it's UK release on Friday. It is my favourite film of the first half of the year, apt as I saw it right on the midpoint of 2021.
The trailer seems to have being doing the rounds for over a year due to covid and has always piqued the interest of my wife and I. The whole Dogme movement passed us by so the only thing we'd seen by director/co-writer Thomas Vinterberg before was his version of 'Far From The Madding Crowd' a few years ago but his treatment of that was excellent.
The central idea of four bored middle-aged men experimenting (literally) with upping their alcohol intake to improve their professional and social performance could make for a terrible movie in the wrong hands but it is fantastically well done. The film just has so much going for it ; hysterically funny at times, heartbreaking at others, really genuine characters & themes, wonderful acting & script, a brilliant eclectic soundtrack and even some pretty nifty dancing.
In the video Q&A afterwards Vinterberg said the film wasn't about drinking but about living and that sums it up.
Loved it, loved it, loved it.
The trailer seems to have being doing the rounds for over a year due to covid and has always piqued the interest of my wife and I. The whole Dogme movement passed us by so the only thing we'd seen by director/co-writer Thomas Vinterberg before was his version of 'Far From The Madding Crowd' a few years ago but his treatment of that was excellent.
The central idea of four bored middle-aged men experimenting (literally) with upping their alcohol intake to improve their professional and social performance could make for a terrible movie in the wrong hands but it is fantastically well done. The film just has so much going for it ; hysterically funny at times, heartbreaking at others, really genuine characters & themes, wonderful acting & script, a brilliant eclectic soundtrack and even some pretty nifty dancing.
In the video Q&A afterwards Vinterberg said the film wasn't about drinking but about living and that sums it up.
Loved it, loved it, loved it.
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