The Commune

Name: The Commune
Genre: Drama, Family
Released: May 19, 2017
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Fares Fares, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Julie Agnete Vang, Lars Ranthe, Lise Koefoed

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: May 19, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Fares Fares, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Julie Agnete Vang, Lars Ranthe, Lise Koefoed, Mads Reuther, Magnus Millang, Martha Sofie Wallstrøm Hansen, Ole Dupont, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen

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, loveErik 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, love and togetherness under one roof until an earth-shattering love affair puts the community and the commune to its greatest test.… Expand

Director: Thomas Vinterberg

Genre(s): Drama, Family

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 111 min

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Leah Greenblatt

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. Read full review

Time Out London Tom Huddleston

Jul 25, 2016

The Commune may veer towards sentimentality in the final act...but overall this is a warm, sharply characterised and absorbing melodrama. Read full review

Andrew Crump

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. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Jul 25, 2016

For Vinterberg, this uneven but nonetheless absorbing pic at least marks a return to characteristically bristly territory. Read full review

The Telegraph Tim Robey

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. Read full review

Stephen Dalton

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. Read full review

Patrick Gamble

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. Read full review

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NickTheCritick

Apr 28, 2022

Copenhagen 1975. Erik and Anna, architect and teacher him and presenter of TG lei, have a teenage daughter and find themselves inheriting a very large house. Anna has an idea and pushes her husband to accept it: to invite some friends to live with them, giving rise to a commune. Soon theCopenhagen 1975. Erik and Anna, architect and teacher him and presenter of TG lei, have a teenage daughter and find themselves inheriting a very large house. Anna has an idea and pushes her husband to accept it: to invite some friends to live with them, giving rise to a commune. Soon the group is formed and rules are not always respected by everyone but between meetings, lunches and Christmas parties things seem to work. Until a new person enters Erik's life and changes his perspectives. It is neither the worst nor the best film by Vinterberg.… Expand

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