Another Round
On: BMS Stream
Dir: Thomas Vinterberg
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen
Rating: ****

Baffles me a bit that a film, essentially a director’s medium, must fetch for itself an Oscar nomination for Best Director (along with Best International Film), but not make the cut for a Best Picture nom itself, which is anyway a much longer list! That’s the curious case with Another Round.

But Oscars are judgments held year on year, while a devastatingly meditative film, studying the human condition, establishing and discarding certain precious truths, such as this, lasts forever. What’s it essentially a meditation on by the way? Booze therapy, if you may!