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The Commune

Kollektivet (The Commune)

2016

Thomas Vinterberg

Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Martha Sofie Wallstrøm Hansen, Helene Reingaard Neumann ...

5.6

1,719

Drama In Denmark in the 1970s, a married couple set up a commune in a big rambling house, but must deal with the pressures and stresses of collective living as well as its joys and freedoms.

	Media	Author	Review
		Tom Huddleston Time Out	"It may veer towards sentimentality, but overall this is a warm and absorbing melodrama. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Kate Muir The Times	"There is nothing [Vinterberg] likes better than creating his own Big Brother house, trapping his protagonists and teasing out their weaknesses, falsehoods and quiet heroism. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"A sweet but lightweight ensemble comedy (...) The Commune effortlessly entertains at a TV sit-com level (...) But as serious cinema, it feels limited"
		Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"The film teases a combination of the director's most intimate film ('Festen') with his most provocative ('The Hunt') (...) Disappointingly though, 'The Commune' falls vastly short of its promise"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"['Kollektivet'] is easier to feel than it is to believe (...) For Vinterberg, this uneven but nonetheless absorbing pic at least marks a return to characteristically bristly territory"
		Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"An intimate, bittersweet study of communal living"
		Christopher Gray Slant	"'The Commune' plays and feels like a crowd-pleaser, yet the film’s sentimentality is suspect, laced with an intriguing but vague strain of bitterness (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Damon Wise Radio Times	"In other hands, this could easily be a pious period piece, but this isn't the story of a social experiment gone wrong (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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