Thomas Vinterberg
Festen, the first Dogme film, tore a family apart with a wedding toast and a handheld camera. Another Round, two decades on, gets four teachers drunk and circles the same question: what Danes will not say sober.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
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Both excavate the ruins of relationships with clinical precision, emotional wreckage becomes the subject itself, not backdrop.
Shared obsession with intimate failure and the small destructions we inflict on those closest to us, tenderness and cruelty as siblings.
Both anatomize moral ambiguity and collective guilt, cinema that asks what we owe each other when everything breaks.
Northern European social realists who build character through improvisation and accumulation, actors as collaborators in excavating truth.
In their own words
I've always been obsessed with Ingmar Bergman's 'Scenes From a Marriage.' What happens to a person when they lose themselves through other people, that's always been interesting to me.
I've always been obsessed with Ingmar Bergman's 'Scenes From a Marriage,' which is another film about couples in crisis. What happens to a person when they lose themselves through other people, that's always been interesting to me.