A deeply moving and profoundly philosophical intervention into the problems facing contemporary Sweden. If social change can be produced through moving-image, this series is its proof.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Initially difficult to endure, this HBO series evokes a profound historical consciousness of the struggle for communal life in the face of liberalism's contrived alienation and cultivated resignation.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's most recent film asks us to take seriously the pervasive consumption of alcohol and to see within it the potential for transcendent societal liberation and new forms of communal engagement.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A Danish film that attempts to rearticulate the Western genre according to the problematic facing contemporary European liberalism fails as a Western, but, in so doing, exposes the naivete of a European liberal culture and context that has never encountered the vagaries of the American Frontier.xxxx