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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 51 m

Summary Erik and Anna are a professional couple with a dream. Along with their daughter Freja, they set up a commune in Erik’s huge villa in the upmarket district of Copenhagen. With the family in the center of the story, we are invited into the dream of a real commune; we participate in house meetings, dinners and parties. It is friendship, lov...

Directed By: Thomas Vinterberg

Written By: Tobias Lindholm, Mogens Rukov, Thomas Vinterberg

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 51 m
The Commune
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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Summary Erik and Anna are a professional couple with a dream. Along with their daughter Freja, they set up a commune in Erik’s huge villa in the upmarket district of Copenhagen. With the family in the center of the story, we are invited into the dream of a real commune; we participate in house meetings, dinners and parties. It is friendship, lov...

Directed By: Thomas Vinterberg

Written By: Tobias Lindholm, Mogens Rukov, Thomas Vinterberg

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
60
45% Positive
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55% Mixed
12 Reviews
0% Negative
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83
May 15, 2017
The movie may feel minor next to Vinterberg’s more serious work, but it’s more personal, too: A messy, tender window into the world that shaped him.
By Leah Greenblatt FULL REVIEW
74
Jun 1, 2017
All the components for bite are here, from unflattering character portraits to hideous amorality, but The Commune never clamps down quite as hard as you’d like it to. Your time won’t be wasted with the movie, but it won’t send you out of the theater scarred, either.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW
67
May 19, 2017
Dyrholm’s extraordinary performance is conspicuously better than Thomsen’s. She’s the best – the only – reason to check out The Commune.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 11, 2016
The Commune doesn’t openly stumble so much as constrict itself awkwardly inside its main love triangle, short-changing the terrific supporting cast, and nearly forgetting what we thought it was all about.
By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 25, 2016
The Commune effortlessly entertains at a TV sitcom level, with its pithy dialogue, its chorus of thinly drawn caricatures and its cozy sense of mockery towards the failed social experiments of past generations. But as serious cinema, it feels limited for the same reasons.
By Stephen Dalton FULL REVIEW
50
May 19, 2017
The Commune, featuring a great ensemble cast (many Vinterberg regulars), doesn't really focus all that much on what happens when you put a bunch of charismatic individuals into one house.
By Sheila O'Malley FULL REVIEW
40
May 15, 2017
The Commune is a film built around the intangibility and melancholy of childhood memories. What should have been a gritty work about a generation confronted with the implausibility of their beliefs is ultimately a banal and self-absorbed drama.
By Patrick Gamble FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Zentropa Entertainments, Danmarks Radio (DR), Det Danske Filminstitut, Film i Väst, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Toolbox Film, Topkapi Films
Release Date May 19, 2017
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline You Choose Your Family
Website https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Commune/615405798570080
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Awards

Danish Film Awards (Robert)
• 2 Wins & 11 Nominations
Bodil Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
European Film Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

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