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Thomas Vinterberg’s Danish drama unfold social norms as Mads Mikkelsen’s teacher undertakes a daily drinking experiment with his colleagues, while Paolo Sorrentino’s coming-of-age tale charts love, betrayal and football in NaplesAn ambivalent attitude towards drinking and its central role in society suffuses this Oscar-winning Danish drama from Thomas Vinterberg. Mads Mikkelsen uses his hangdog features to fine effect as worn-down teacher Martin, unhappily married and bored of trying to inspire his students. When he and three colleagues start taking daily doses of alcohol as a psychological experiment, they enjoy a brief kick of creativity and joie de vivre. However, their incipient addictions increasingly complicate relationships at work and home. Vinterberg, the director of similarly forensic dissections of social norms in Festen and The Hunt, avoids easy answers as tragedy unfolds. Sunday 12 December, 10.25am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere Continue reading...