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Druk Another Round In their first collaboration since 2012’s fore and the men are faced with a choice: Oscar-nominated The Hunt, Thomas reckon with their behaviour or continue on Thomas Vinterberg Vinterberg reunites with actor Mads the same course. Mikkelsen for Another Round, a film that Directed with insight and energy by DENMARK, 2020 ranks among each man’s best, most memo- Vinterberg, and driven by a great ensemble Danish 116 minutes | Colour/DCP (D-Cinema) rable work. Once the brightest teacher at cast (Bonnevie, Millang, Lars Ranthe, and his high school, Martin (Mikkelsen) has Thomas Bo Larsen) with the incomparable Production Company: Zentropa Entertainments/ Film i Väst/Zentropa Sweden/Topkapi Films fallen into a seemingly permanent funk. Mikkelsen at its centre, Another Round is Producer: Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Kasper Dissing He’s barely present in his classes — the a boisterous and sobering comedy about Screenplay: Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm students and their parents even attempt an how men deal (and don’t deal) with aging Cinematographer: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen Editor: Anne Østerud, Janus Billeskov Jansen intervention — and his marriage is slowly — though underlying it all is a shared, Production Designer: Sabine Hviid dissolving. At a birthday celebration, his unnerving suspicion they may never have Sound: Jan Schermer, Hans Møller three closest colleagues (all men), cajole actually grown up in the first place. Principal Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe, Maria Bonnevie teetotaller Martin into boozing along with STEVE GRAVESTOCK Canadian Distributor: Mongrel Media them. They get progressively drunker and International Sales Agent: TrustNordisk the shit-disturber of the group, Nikolaj Thomas Vinterberg was born in Copenhagen and graduated (Magnus Millang), tells them about an from the National Film School of Denmark. He co-founded the Dogme 95 movement and directed its inaugural film, obscure philosopher who argued humans The Celebration (98), which screened at the Festival, as did aren’t born with enough alcohol in their Dear Wendy (05), The Hunt (12), The Commune (16), and blood. As an “experiment,” he proposes they Kursk (18). His other features include Submarino (10) and all drink constantly throughout the day to Far From the Madding Crowd (15). Another Round (20) is maintain the “proper” blood-alcohol level his latest work. of 0.05%. Initially the boozing seems enormously beneficial. A reinvigorated Martin begins to engage with his students and shocks his long-suffering wife, Trine (Maria Bonnevie), with his new-found zest. But as the gang pushes their experiment further, issues that have been simmering for years come to the 39 DASATSKISI Beginning Submerged in feelings of restlessness, Yana experimental electronic composer Nicolás (Ia Sukhitashvili) sees a stranger’s reflection Jaar, who scored Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan Dea Kulumbegashvili looking back at her from the mirror. Along- (2015) and Pablo Larraín’s Ema (2019), side her son, George, and husband, David Beginning is an unsettling plummet down GEORGIA/FRANCE, 2020 (Rati Oneli), she is a Jehovah’s Witness a rabbit hole. Sukhitashvili, barefaced and Georgian 125 minutes | Colour/DCP (D-Cinema) missionary in a predominantly Christian forthright, is brilliant as Yana. Not for the Orthodox mountainside village in Georgia. faint of heart, Kulumbegashvili’s latest Production Company: First Picture/Office of film Architecture/ZADIG FILMS The isolated community of Witnesses is pierces logic and challenges us to not only Executive Producer: Gaetan Rousseau, Carlos Reygadas, aghast when their Kingdom Hall is attacked see, but also feel the inexplicable horrors Steven Darty, Adrien Dassault, Paul Rozenberg during a service and the modest place of that can be endured by the vulnerable when Producer: Ilan Amouyal, David Zerat, Rati Oneli Screenplay: Dea Kulumbegashvili, Rati Oneli worship left in ashes. The steadfast couple at the mercy of the almighty. Cinematographer: Arseni Khachaturan now stands at the crossroads of continuing DOROTA LECH Production Designer: Guram Navrozashvili to reside in hostile territory and honour- Sound: Séverin Favriau Original Score: Nicolás Jaar ing their commitment to a higher power. Dea Kulumbegashvili was born and raised in Georgia. She Principal Cast: Ia Sukhitashvili, Rati Oneli, David manages to obtain CCTV footage of studied film directing at Columbia University School of the Kakha Kintsurashvili, Saba Gogichaishvili Arts in New York. She wrote and directed the short films the attack and Yana, who is searching for Invisible Spaces (14) and Léthé (16). Beginning (20) is her International Sales Agent: Wild Bunch International purpose in life, becomes fixated on justice. first feature film. Her path to retribution leads her to a con- frontation with a local police officer (Kakha Content advisories: sexual violence, explicit violence Kintsurashvili) that triggers an irreversible series of traumatic events. Beginning is the harrowing and sensorial debut feature from Dea Kulumbegashvili, whose debut short, Invisible Spaces, was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2014. Impeccably shot on 35mm by Kulumbegashvili’s collaborator Arseni Khachaturan; edited by Matthieu Taponier, who is known for editing László Nemes’s Son of Saul; and with original music by 43 Casa de Antiguidades Memory House Living in modern times but trapped in a colo- Boasting some of the most mesmer- nial nightmare, Cristovam (Antônio Pitanga, izing cinematography at the Festival this João Paulo Miranda Maria a noted actor in Brazil’s Cinema Novo move- year, Memory House is a slow-burning tale ment of the 1960s) is an Indigenous–Black that reflects the notoriously complex and BRAZIL/FRANCE, 2020 man from the rural north of Brazil who turbulent history of Brazil’s inland culture Portuguese, German 93 minutes | Colour/DCP (D-Cinema) migrated for work during the economic while focussing on one man’s threshold for boom to an affluent Austrian enclave in the generational pain. Boiling over in an unfor- Production Company: BeBossa Entertainment/Maneki Films south. Over three decades later, he is now gettable conclusion, Memory House probes Producer: Denise Gomes, Paula Cosenza, Didar Domehri lost in a decadent community. Informed that the subtext of the colonial experience — and Screenplay: João Paulo Miranda Maria he must take a wage cut at the milk factory what happens when cultural colonization Cinematographer: Benjamín Echazarreta Editor: Benjamin Mirguet where he has worked for many years, he finds and a system still rooted in white supremacy Production Designer: Isabelle Bittencourt refuge in an abandoned home where he dis- forces those deemed “others” into isolation Sound: Léo Bortolin covers artifacts reminiscent of his past. As and slowly chips away at their humanity. Original Score: Nicolas Becker Principal Cast: Antonio Pitanga, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Cristovam rediscovers his roots, he comes DIANA SANCHEZ Sam Louwyck to the realization that nothing has changed.