Another Round

By this point in MADSNESS we've had gangster Mads, sad Mads, cannibal Mads, fat Mads, ripped Mads and prestige Mads. ANOTHER ROUND gives us drunk Mads.

Four middle-aged teachers decide to test a theory that humans function better with a small amount of alcohol permanently in their bloodstream. The results begin encouragingly.

What follows is funny, uncomfortable, chaotic and unexpectedly moving in almost equal measure as the experiment gradually expands beyond professional curiosity and into something much more personal.

Reuniting Mads Mikkelsen with Thomas Vinterberg following THE HUNT, ANOTHER ROUND became one of the defining films of the decade, winning the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and introducing audiences around the world to one of Mads' warmest and most human performances.

Like much of the best Danish cinema, ANOTHER ROUND manages to be about several things at once: friendship, ageing, routine, regret and the terrifying possibility that your life may have quietly become smaller than you intended it to be.

Funny, melancholic and deeply humane, ANOTHER ROUND feels like the perfect closing chapter to the Mads story.

And yes, the final scene really is as good as everyone says it is.