``Another Round'' Sake, tears, and Mads Mikkelsen. Enjoy the clarity of life through great performances

A simple and rich human drama that is both clear and dark.

Martin, Tommy, Nikolai, and Peter rely on alcohol to get through their daily lives. The story is simple and the human drama is simple, but through the performances of the actors, you can feel their joy, sadness, anger, sadness, failure, and hopelessness, as if you have experienced it yourself. It stings in my chest. Although this work has midlife crisis as its theme, it is sure to have universality regardless of gender or age.

Director Winterbear said that when working on this film, ``I wanted to make a movie that also makes you think about life,'' and that he tried to portray ``not just ``living'' but ``living'' in the true sense of the word. There is. This is probably why this movie never denies drinking or relying on alcohol to liberate oneself or alleviate suffering. Both the joy and joy of drinking and the horrors of alcohol dependence are handled with an exquisite sense of balance. The joys and sorrows of drinking are intentionally layered with the joys and sorrows of life.

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Therefore, what I described earlier as ``universality regardless of gender or age'' may be rephrased as ``human weakness,'' which people tend to think they should not show. ``Another Round'' also depicts the preciousness of sharing the hardships and sufferings of life and daily life over alcohol and exposing one's weaknesses. Even though a number of incidents related to alcohol occur and irreparable events occur, Martin and his friends still drink and surrender to the moment of enjoyment. The last scene of this movie is so beautiful because it literally has the strength to swallow up such turbidity.

Director Winterbear's style, which captures personal human drama head-on and focuses on capturing the performances of great actors such as Mads Mikkelsen, is as simple as mentioned above, and this time too, it has an extremely high intensity. and succeeded in acquiring purity. It also proves once again in this day and age that acting, and by extension, filming people, can lead a movie.

Thomas Winterberg and Mads Mikkelsen, who produced masterpieces such as ``Another Round,'' will no doubt attract even more attention to their next collaboration.

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Text: Takatoshi Inagaki

Writer/editor/dramaturg. His writing activities span across fields such as movies, dramas, comics, theater, and art. Contributes to theater programs such as the movies ``Tenet'' and ``Joker,'' edits web media, edits exhibition catalogs, and appears on radio. Major stage works include dramaturg for PARCO's productions of ``Kengyo Yabuhara'', Tristone Entertainment's ``Shoujo Kamen'', prosthetic assistant for Kinoshita Kabuki's ``Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan'', ``Sannin Kichizo'', ``Kanjincho'', and KUNIO's ``Greeks''. ”Literature.

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