The Commune

After a husband and wife start a commune in Copenhagen, they discover the joys and perils of group living.

2894d ago

Vinterberg tries to endow his narrative with a feminist sensibility, but, considering how thinly he’s sketched both Emma and Freja — and the emotional abuse he’s put all these women through — if anything, women are merely held in marginally higher esteem within his general misanthropy.

2894d ago

After a husband and wife start a commune in Copenhagen, they discover the joys and perils of group living.

2894d ago

The Commune is just a midlife crisis with more characters.

2894d ago

Vinterberg tries to endow his narrative with a feminist sensibility, but, considering how thinly he’s sketched both Emma and Freja — and the emotional abuse he’s put all these women through — if anything, women are merely held in marginally higher esteem within his general misanthropy.

2894d ago

The Thomas Vinterberg film’s sentimentality is suspect, laced with an intriguing but vague strain of bitterness.

2894d ago

The Thomas Vinterberg film’s sentimentality is suspect, laced with an intriguing but vague strain of bitterness.

2894d ago

Tobias Lindholm’s screenplay sacrifices credibility for quirkiness.

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The high cost of 1970s free love.

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Thomas Vinterberg's return to the fractious dramatic style of 'The Celebration' is easier to feel than it is to believe.

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Trine Dyrholm powers a tense Vinterberg film set in 1970s Copenhagen, where a couple’s experiment in group living reveals faultlines in their own relationship.

2894d ago

Trine Dyrholm powers a tense Vinterberg film set in 1970s Copenhagen, where a couple’s experiment in group living reveals faultlines in their own relationship.

2894d ago

Thomas Vinterberg's return to the fractious dramatic style of 'The Celebration' is easier to feel than it is to believe.

2894d ago

The high cost of 1970s free love.

2894d ago

Tobias Lindholm’s screenplay sacrifices credibility for quirkiness.

2894d ago

Former Oscar nominee Thomas Vinterberg draws on his own unconventional childhood for this Berlin competition contender about a dysfunctional Danish commune.

2894d ago

Former Oscar nominee Thomas Vinterberg draws on his own unconventional childhood for this Berlin competition contender about a dysfunctional Danish commune.

2894d ago

Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune is partly autobiographical: The Danish director of The Celebration and The Hunt lived in a commune between the ages of seven and nineteen, at a time when collective living had become popular in Scandinavia.

2894d ago

"That's the point of a commune. You support each other." Said by one character at a moment of crisis in Thomas Vinterberg's "The Commune," it expresses the ideal of living in community.

2894d ago

Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune is partly autobiographical: The Danish director of The Celebration and The Hunt lived in a commune between the ages of seven and nineteen, at a time when collective living had become popular in Scandinavia.

2894d ago

"That's the point of a commune. You support each other." Said by one character at a moment of crisis in Thomas Vinterberg's "The Commune," it expresses the ideal of living in community.

2894d ago