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I didn´t like it. I expected a movie about living in a "kollektivet", but 90% of the movie is about the relationship/problems between eric and anna and not about the "kollektivet". I think the whole story could have happend the same way without them living with so many people.

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I agree. The theme was a disappointment, but the performances were terrific.

All in all I liked it.

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It's absolutely wonderful!

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As a Dane who grew up in a "commune" for half my childhood, it's absolute trash imo.

It depicts a fiction: Neat, elegant, bourgeois upper-class communes. For middle-class people and up, those are called "bofællesskaber" or cohabitations, where people live in separated row houses, but with a common social/dining area in the middle.

Real communes were always populated by a mix of anarchists, communists, spiritualists, ecologists, craftsmen, bohemians, non-conformists, counter-culturalists and just straight up bums.

All of that is so clinically airbrushed away in this movie that it seems absurd to even consider this an attempt to depict what life in a commune would look like.

I do agree that the movie is ultimately about the relationship and not the commune. The message Vinterberg seemingly wants to get across is that communes leave little space for the individual and that monogamy is the one true path that is best not steered away from... or else.

I can (strongly) agree with the former, but hardly on the latter (which I also felt took ages to repeat and was so predictably coming throughout 3/4s of the movie).

This movie had a chance to depict something very unique, strange and (in my view) dysfunctional with a critical view, but it failed on all counts due to a complete lack of credibility and the story being so shallow.

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Thanks for your insight. Nice to hear from someone with some background. I am about halfway into the first show and there are a few moments that appealed to me emotionally, such as when the "leader" votes to accept the crying guy. I look forward to watching more, but it is challenging as the subtitles go by very fast and it is hard to understand the context.

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I thought it would be loaded with all kinds of awkward situations, pain and conflict. Theres's a little bit of that, but it's actually much more subdued and gentle than Celebration or The Hunt.

It also drags a little.

Trine Dyrholm is great, everything else is more or less "meh". There are better ways to spend two hours.

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If you'd like to see a great film about living on a commune, watch the Swedish film Tillsammans (Together), directed by Lukas Moodyson.

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Just looked it up and added it to my watch list. Sad that Michael Nyqvist just died. He was a good actor with a good face.

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No. The screenplay is just full of implausibility.

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Yes, it's good. I saw it today at TIFF. Best movie I've seen there so far. Granted, it's hard to get tickets for La Land, Birth of a Nation, etc.

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No. Dry, utterly predictable and with a cast where two thirds of them have virtually nothing to do.

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