Eight years after making the Oscar-nominated The Hunt together, Mads Mikkelsen and writer-director Thomas Vinterberg have reunited for Another Round, a tragicomic portrait of midlife crisis and alcohol abuse.
Since their previous collaboration, both director and star have mostly worked on bigger international features, but they are back on comfortable home ground here with a modestly scaled Danish-language production full of familiar faces.
Mikkelsen plays a high-school history teacher hoping to revitalize his dreary job and stale marriage by staying secretly drunk all day, a risky experiment which leaves this former James Bond villain both shaken and stirred.
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