Slant Magazine by Christopher Gray
The Thomas Vinterberg film's sentimentality is suspect, laced with an intriguing but vague strain of bitterness.
✭ ✭ ✭ Read critic reviews
Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands · 2016
1h 51m
Director Thomas Vinterberg
Starring Ulrich Thomsen, Trine Dyrholm, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Lars Ranthe
Genre Drama, Family
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
Erik inherits his father’s large old house in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen, and his wife Anna suggests that they invite their friends to come and live with them. Before long, a dozen women, men and children move into the country house. Their fragile equilibrium threatens to come undone when Erik falls in love with his student Emma.
Slant Magazine by Christopher Gray
The Thomas Vinterberg film's sentimentality is suspect, laced with an intriguing but vague strain of bitterness.
The Film Stage by Giovanni Marchini Camia
Ends up probing largely universal quandaries to lackluster results.
For Vinterberg, this uneven but nonetheless absorbing pic at least marks a return to characteristically bristly territory.
The resulting drama offers a great showcase for Dyrholm, whose slide towards instability is the film’s core.
Despite presenting an environment enriched to weapons-grade plutonium levels with potential for interpersonal drama, Vinterberg can’t seem to find any.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
The lack of development in the supporting cast is a problem. Nothing, or almost nothing, of any consequence happens to these people. The title is a bit misleading: there is no real communal plot development.
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
The Commune effortlessly entertains at a TV sitcom level, with its pithy dialogue, its chorus of thinly drawn caricatures and its cozy sense of mockery towards the failed social experiments of past generations. But as serious cinema, it feels limited for the same reasons.
The Commune doesn’t openly stumble so much as constrict itself awkwardly inside its main love triangle, short-changing the terrific supporting cast, and nearly forgetting what we thought it was all about.
Time Out London by Tom Huddleston
The Commune may veer towards sentimentality in the final act...but overall this is a warm, sharply characterised and absorbing melodrama.
Screen International by Wendy Ide
The film is a patchwork portrait that combines the joys and irritations, the petty arguments and the homespun warmth of this environment.
Let the manhunt begin.
A story about a simple plumber up against an entire system of corrupt bureaucrats.
A lady never reveals her tactics.
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden
nightclub, dance hall, pub, bar, ghent, drugs, rock music, cocaine, alcohol, alcoholism, brotherhood, brothers, sibling rivalry, sibling relationship, hedonism, club, money
Thinking through things is one thing; doing them is another...
A mother enlists the help of a private detective to hunt down the four men who sexually assault her stepdaughter.
The strange story of Mrs. Drazdechova --- a teacher who blackmails her students' parents.
A war movie about what happens after battle.
An ordinary man discovers more about the world in the midst of absurd and apocalyptic events.
Still living at home, loner Nitram finds an unexpected friend in Helen. But when their relationship ends, he starts spiralling.
An exploration of contemporary China through the lens of consumerism, innovation, and pursuit of the "Chinese Dream."