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Directed by | Thomas Vinterberg |
Written by | Thomas Vinterberg Tobias Lindholm |
Based on | The Commune by Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov |
Produced by | Morten Kauffman |
Starring | Ulrich Thomsen Trine Dyrholm |
Cinematography | Jesper Tøffner |
Distributed by | Nordisk Film |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | Denmark |
Language | Danish |
Box office | $3.64 million [1] |
The Commune (Danish : Kollektivet) is a 2016 Danish drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. [2] [3] At Berlin, Trine Dyrholm won the Silver Bear for Best Actress. [4] It was named as one of three films that could be chosen as the Danish submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but was not selected. [5]
The film is based on the play The Commune, which Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov wrote on commission from the Burgtheater in Vienna. Vinterberg grew up in a commune, which was his inspiration for writing about the subject. Rukov had been Vinterberg's teacher at the National Film School of Denmark and the two had previously co-written Vinterberg's 1998 film The Celebration . For the film adaptation of The Commune, Vinterberg co-wrote the screenplay with Tobias Lindholm and added more locations to the story, which in the original play is set entirely in one room. [6]
The Commune has a 71% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 94 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The website critics' consensus reads: "The Commune may not stand with Thomas Vinterberg's greatest work, but the end results remain thought-provoking and overall absorbing." [7] According to Metacritic, which sampled 22 critics and calculated an average score of 60 out of 100, the film received "mixed or average reviews". [8]