Critic: Thomas Vinterberg gets drunk on his own importance in 'Another round'
That a detailed chronicle on the hazards, industries and ravages of
alcoholism won
almost all of the awards in dispute at the 33rd ceremony of the European Film Awards, held in Berlin and in the wide world at the same time, was perhaps the logical, drunkenly sensible.
Never before has a similar ceremony been known, and almost certainly never after.
Everything happened 'online' with its disconnections, its sounds out of time,
with the cameras of each nominee (each one at home) pointing to God knows where ... All very Zoom and perfectly incomprehensible.
Rather than the consequences of a pandemic, what was seen on Saturday night was more like the result of a great drunkenness.
Or both things.
But all good.
And all happy.
Thus, the Danish '
Another round'
, by
Thomas Vinterberg,
won the awards for
director, screenplay (Vinterberg himself and Tobias Lindholm), actor (Mads Mikkelsen) and best film.
Most.
All logical.
All with the BAC through the roof.
In reality, the only prize for the female performance was left without, which went to the German
Paula Beer
for her work in
Christian Petzold's
'
Ondina
'
.
In this way the only Spanish option of the night was spoiled:
Marta Nieto
for '
Mother
', by
Rodrigo Sorogoyen
.
Of course, the Spanish '
El hoyo'
, by
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
, had already been awarded with
the best special effects.
The truth is that no movie enjoyed the privilege of being singled out as a favorite.
Among those competing for the top prize, three of them have already been released in Spain (the Polish '
Corpus Christi'
, by
Jan Komasa
; the German '
Ondina
', by
Christian Petzold
, and the Czech '
The Painted Bird
', by
Václav Marhoul
), another will do so shortly (the Italian '
Martin Eden'
, by
Pietro Marcello
), another does not have distribution (the German
'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
, by
Burhan Qurbani
) and the last one will be seen next year ( the winner).
With '
Another round
', the director of '
Celebration
' (1998) returns to actor Mads Mikkelsen, with whom he would love '
The hunt'
(2012).
The whole film is supported by an experiment that four teachers undergo at first happily then not so much.
"What if we force ourselves to maintain a blood alcohol level for the entire duration of a normal workday? What if we bring the experience to every second of our well-off perfectly bourgeois lives?" The protagonists say to themselves.
Let's say that Vinterberg plays at provoking,
dislocating or simply making reality
(hence the provocation) what the common people in which we live installed long ago accepted as a hallmark: drinking lightens our conscience and makes us more sincere.
The daring of the film is the starting point: the clarity of the abyss that is so popular in Denmark.
They choose to drink
not exactly for pleasure or just to see what happens, but to disprove it all.
Then it is not clear that the director takes the premise to its last consequences and, it is fair to admit,
what wanted to be a devastating nihilist manifesto ends up in the vagueness of the sentimental,
in the complacency of the melodramatic.
But, and this is what counts, 'Another Round' ends up so gleefully drunk that, by force, it had to be the film for a whole year that promises the most brutal of hangovers.
From the drunkenness of the
two and a half hour long
'
online
'
ceremony
in a chaotic and happy Zoom connection, why insist.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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