Another Round
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Short description
Four men who teach at the same Danish secondary school are stuck in routines that have worn down their work and their relationships. At a birthday dinner, one of them raises a theory attributed to a Norwegian philosopher: that people function best with a small amount of alcohol in their blood. The friends, led by history teacher Martin, decide to test it on themselves by keeping a steady level of intoxication through the working day, initially treating the experiment as a serious piece of research with rules and measurements. Early results seem to support the idea, but the arrangement soon proves difficult to control.
Thomas Vinterberg directed and co-wrote the film with Tobias Lindholm, the sixth feature in the directing career the facts list, following The Celebration, Dear Wendy, The Hunt, Far from the Madding Crowd and Kursk. Mads Mikkelsen plays Martin, with Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang and Lars Ranthe as his colleagues, and Maria Bonnevie and Helene Reingaard Neumann also among the 41 credited cast members.
Made for around 5 million dollars, the Danish-Swedish-Dutch co-production took about 22 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.7 out of 10 from roughly 225,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.6 from a much smaller base. A critics' rating of 8 out of 10 across 232 reviews places it somewhat above those audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Towards the end of the film, Martin begins to dance while drunk. Mads Mikkelsen himself performed this scene; no stunt doubles were used. The dance scene took two days to film. Because Mikkelsen hadn't danced professionally for almost 30 years, he had to dance for 4-5 hours a day with a friend and a choreographer.
- The film is based on a play by Thomas Vinterberg. One source of inspiration was Vinterberg's daughter, Ida, and her stories about the drinking habits of Danish youth. Ida specifically insisted that Vinterberg make a film based on the play and that she herself should play Martin's daughter (Mads Mikkelsen), but less than a week after filming began, Ida died in a car accident. After this tragedy, the film's script was reworked. The film is dedicated to the memory of Ida.
- According to Mads Mikkelsen, no alcohol was consumed during filming.
- When Mads Mikkelsen's daughter was still a teenager, he once picked her up from a party and also gave a ride to another drunk guy. Mikkelsen's daughter asked her father to drop the guy off at home first, and he had an entire case of beer with him. A couple of months later, this story repeated itself. It later turned out that this guy was Emil Goll, the vocalist of Scarlet Pleasure, whose song "What a Life" concludes the film.
- The final dance scene took two days to film. Because Mikkelsen hadn't danced professionally for almost 30 years, he had to dance for 4-5 hours a day with a friend and a choreographer.
- Denmark has one of the highest rates of teenage alcohol consumption in the world. According to a WHO report dated early 2020, 15-year-old adolescents in Denmark consume almost twice as much alcohol as their peers in other European countries. Recent attempts to raise the legal drinking age from 16 to 18 have been unsuccessful, partly because adults fondly remember their own youthful drinking experiences.
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