Synopsis
A funny and moving story of family and free love set in a freewheeling 1970s commune. When Anna and Erik inherit a huge house, they gather a motley crew of cohabitants to reinvigorate their lives, forcing them to reconcile their new values with old habits.
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Cast
- Ulrich ThomsenErik
- Trine DyrholmAnna
- Helene Reingaard NeumannEmma
- Lars RantheOle
- Julie Agnete VangMona
- Fares FaresAllon
- Magnus MillangSteffen
- Martha Sofie Wallstrøm HansenFreja
- Anne Gry HenningsenDitte
- Sebastian Grønnegaard MilbratVilads
Recommandations
- 80
Time Out London
The Commune may veer towards sentimentality in the final act...but overall this is a warm, sharply characterised and absorbing melodrama. - 80
Total Film
The resulting drama offers a great showcase for Dyrholm, whose slide towards instability is the film’s core. - 63
Slant Magazine
The Thomas Vinterberg film's sentimentality is suspect, laced with an intriguing but vague strain of bitterness. - 60
The Guardian
The lack of development in the supporting cast is a problem. Nothing, or almost nothing, of any consequence happens to these people. The title is a bit misleading: there is no real communal plot development. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 60
Screen Daily
The film is a patchwork portrait that combines the joys and irritations, the petty arguments and the homespun warmth of this environment. - 60
Variety
For Vinterberg, this uneven but nonetheless absorbing pic at least marks a return to characteristically bristly territory. - 60
The Telegraph
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.
