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‘Families Like Ours’ Director Thomas Vinterberg On His Apocalyptic Series: “I Started Thinking, What Would Happen If We Became The Refugees?”
While the issue of refugees and economic migrants continues to dominate world headlines, Denmark’s Thomas Vinterberg has found an ingenious way to turn the situation on its head. With his seven-part series Families Like Ours, Vinterberg posits an imagined but not too far-fetched scenario in which his homeland is forced, literally, to close down. Flooding […]
Drawing on the realistic but empathetic style shown in films such as Festen, It’s All About Love and Another Round, for which he won an Oscar, Vinterberg casts his eye over a handful of protagonists caught up in the madness. At the center is Amaryllis August as Laura, a high-school girl who is experiencing the first bloom of love when the story breaks, forcing her to choose between her father and his new family, her pill-popping mother (the wonderful Paprika Steen) and her boyfriend when the country’s population of 6 million gets its marching orders. With the apocalypse encroaching at a glacial pace, Vinterberg focuses on the ordinary people in its path; all human life is there, including a working-class boy whose footballing ambitions secure an apprenticeship at Liverpool FC in the U.K.
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