The Commune (2016) on Netflix
Erik, an architecture lecturer, inherits his father's house in Hellerup, outside Copenhagen. His wife Anna, a newscaster, invites friends to move in to ease the boredom in their marriage.
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- Rotten Tomatoes71%
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Plot summary
A story about the clash between personal desires, solidarity and tolerance in a Danish commune in the 1970s.
—Polly_Kat
Erik, a lecturer in architecture, inherits his father's large old house in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen. His wife Anna, a well-known television newscaster, suggests that they invite their friends to come and live with them. In this way she hopes to evade the boredom that has begun to seep into their marriage. Before long, a dozen women, men and children move into the country house, make collective decisions, engage in discussions and go swimming together in the nearby Øresund strait. They also rub each other up the wrong way on account of their smaller and larger idiosyncrasies. Their fragile equilibrium threatens to come undone when Erik falls in love with his student Emma and the young woman moves into the house. Fourteen-year-old Freja, daughter of Erik and Anna, aloofly observes these goings-on and seeks her own way.
Cast
- Sebastian Grønnegaard Milbratas Vilads
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Commune (2016)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Commune is based on a play that Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov wrote on commission from the Burgtheater in Vienna; Vinterberg's own childhood in a commune inspired the subject.
- For the film adaptation, Thomas Vinterberg co-wrote the screenplay with Tobias Lindholm and added more locations to the story, which in the original play takes place entirely in one room.
