Two brothers meet at their mother's funeral, each in his way on a path of self-destruction, both haunted by a tragedy in their youth.
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★★★★★
Vinterberg has a great grip on playing out human drama. Even though the circumstances are extreme and might feel a tiny bit too much, I never felt the emotions displayed are overplayed or inauthentic. The subtleties of the main actors were very nicely used to...
★★★★★
Sometimes I think that while watching a film, the language barrier prevents me from fully accessing the emotion. But Thomas Vinterberg's films immediately shatter this idea. I feel so close to the film and the characters that I even start enjoying Danish. Norm...
★★★★★
An incredibly intriguing, engaging, emotional and thoughtful drama from Denmark. Intriguing because there is a mystery about the sequence of events. You see the movie from one brother's perspective, initially, and there's a question mark over the whereabouts o...
★★★★★
We see two separate but continuously interleaving stories of two brothers, each trying to cope with their daily lives, overall providing for a pessimistic view on their lives, riddled with drugs, violence, alcohol, bad housing circumstances, but at the same ti...
★★★★★
This was a difficult hour and fifty minutes. All the lives shown were hopeless ones in varying situations of despair and desperation. Nick and his brother (who is never named) struggle with the guilt of the loss of their baby brother whom they looked after for...
