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A story about the clash between personal desires, solidarity and tolerance in a Danish commune in the 1970s.A story about the clash between personal desires, solidarity and tolerance in a Danish commune in the 1970s.A story about the clash between personal desires, solidarity and tolerance in a Danish commune in the 1970s.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 21 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe film is based on Thomas Vinterberg's play of the same name, which is inspired by his colourful childhood in an academic commune north of Copenhagen.
- GoofsThe signs on the bus stops were not introduced until the late 80's or 90's.
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"The Commune" at the center of Thomas Vinterberg's film isn't typical of the communes I knew back in the day. For a start, the members of this one are reasonably well off and are mostly middle-aged and, of course, they bring to this 'living together' thing all the baggage you would expect. Things come to a head when commune founder Erik, (Ulrich Thomsen), falls for one of his students and moves her in leading his wife Anna, (Trine Dyrholm), to have a nervous breakdown.
Vinterberg's film began life as a play and it's certainly very theatrical but despite the emotional conflicts at the film's heart, it's also fairly conventional with everyone other than Erik and Anna fading very much into the background. You never get to know any of them. Subplots come and go and it just trudges on. On the plus side, it's very well acted particularly by Dyrholm who won the Best Actress prize at Berlin; she's the only one you actually care about. It might have worked better on stage where at least you could feel 'in the same place' as these commune-dwellers. On screen, it just feels like another piece of Vinterberg navel-gazing.
Vinterberg's film began life as a play and it's certainly very theatrical but despite the emotional conflicts at the film's heart, it's also fairly conventional with everyone other than Erik and Anna fading very much into the background. You never get to know any of them. Subplots come and go and it just trudges on. On the plus side, it's very well acted particularly by Dyrholm who won the Best Actress prize at Berlin; she's the only one you actually care about. It might have worked better on stage where at least you could feel 'in the same place' as these commune-dwellers. On screen, it just feels like another piece of Vinterberg navel-gazing.
- MOscarbradley
- Jun 6, 2019
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Комуна
- Filming locations
- Hellerup, Sjælland, Denmark(location)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $38,737
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,249
- May 21, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $4,410,339
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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