The plot for Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film, “Another Round,” which was part of the Official Selection of this year’s canceled Cannes Film Festival, has a group of friends deciding to hold an experiment to see if maintaining a certain level of alcohol intoxication can benefit their daily lives. Just one look at the recently released trailer shows that what starts off as a successful venture, both professionally and personally for these scruples of liquid poison, turns into total chaos and dependence on the substance.
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When a director decides to venture into a well-worn genre, comparisons to far superior films are inevitable. And so, a film like Joe Penna‘s feature-length directorial debut, “Arctic,” a survival drama, will no doubt run the risk of being compared to its spiritual predecessors: Danny Boyle‘s “127 Hours,” J.C. Chandor‘s “All is Lost” and Joe Carnahan‘s “The Grey.” The correlation potentially weakens the film, but like all great art, if imitation can transcend or even equal its inspirations, then all the better.
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