While it might not have been as widely praised as some of his other films — namely The Hunt — I found Thomas Vinterberg‘s adaptation of Far From the Madding Crowd earlier this year to be a highly entertaining, engaging film. Rather than going further down the direction of star-studded, English-language features, he’s returned to a drama in his native homeland, and today brings the first trailer.
The Commune, adapted by Tobias Lindholm (his partner on The Hunt and Submarino, and a great director in his own right with A Hijacking and A War) from one of Vinterberg’s plays, is described as “a Nordic, dark Scandinavian version of Ice Storm.” It follows a family whose move into a tiny community ends up tearing them apart. Living here, amongst new faces, they find themselves more concerned with what others are up to than the lives of those they know so well, in the process losing “their sense of and focus on what’s important in life.”
Starring Ulrich Thomsen, Trine Dyrholm, Fares Fares, Julie Agnete Vang, and Lars Ranthe, it’ll arrive in Denmark on January 14th, but has no U.S. distribution yet. Check out the trailer below via The Movie Box.
The Commune is seeking U.S. distribution.