Inspired by his own personal experiences, co-founder of the Dogme 95 film-making movement and Danish director Thomas Vinterberg powers a comedy-drama about human relationships and the unstable foundations of group living with The Commune.

In the early 1970s, a successful professor of architecture, Erik, inherits a large mansion in suburban Copenhagen and decides to set up a commune with his wife Anna and daughter Freja. Together they invite friends, acquaintances and strangers to live with them, creating a melting pot of left-wing ideas and new familial bonds.

But when Erik begins an affair with Emma, a beautiful young student from his course, the spirit of free love that formed the foundations of the commune will threaten to bring it all tumbling down. Trine Dyrholm won the Silver Bear for best actress at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival for her portrayal of Anna.

 

■  This 2016 film is in Danish with English subtitles and is suitable for those aged 15 and over. This is its second screening as Spazju Kreattiv included it in the line-up for the European Art Cinema Day last Sunday. It is being shown today at St James Cavalier in Valletta at 9pm.

  Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune, screening today, tackles the difficulties of living together with a large group of people.

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