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Thomas Vinterberg Says Venice’s Own Flooding Concerns Made It ‘Obvious Choice’ for Launch of Climate Change Miniseries ‘Families Likes Ours’
Thomas Vinterberg says Venice’s own flooding concerns made it the 'obvious choice’ for launch of climate change miniseries ‘Families Likes Ours’
It’s no coincidence that “Families Likes Our,” the climate change disaster drama miniseries in which Denmark literally closes due to flooding, is premiering in Venice, a city famously battling its own existential crisis over rising sea levels. “All the water here made it the obvious choice,” says Thomas Vinterberg, the Danish director for whom “ Families Like Ours marks his first TV series (and first project since his acclaimed Oscar-winning feature “Another Round.”) “Even in my first letter to Alberto [Barbera], I said there was no other place we can show this than in Venice.” But the actual disaster — the flooding — isn’t seen on screen, and serves more of a looming threat as the drama focuses on one family torn apart by the life-changing decisions they’re forced to make.
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