![]() In 1998, Dyrholm played the role of the hotel maid in the first Dogme 95 film, Festen ( The Celebration). Thereafter she appeared in Morten Lorentzen's films Casanova (1990) and Cecilie (1991), and then Thomas Vinterberg's De største helte ( The Greatest Heroes) in 1996. That same year, she earned glowing reviews for her role in the TV production of Hosekrammeren. Dyrholm earned national recognition with her screen debut in the 1990 teenage romance Springflod for which she received the 1991 Bodil Award for Best Actress. In 1995, she debuted in En skærsommernatsdrøm at Grønnegårds Teatret. After her Grand Prix success, Dyrholm recorded a CD of her own songs.ĭyrholm attended the Statens Teaterskole (Danish National School of Theatre) from 1991 to 1995. In 1987, at 14 years old, Dyrholm made her breakthrough as the lead singer in Trine & The Moonlighters when the group placed third in the Danish Melodi Grand Prix with the song Danse i måneskin ( Dancing in Moonlight). At the age of 10, she performed in Et juleeventyr ( A Christmas Carol) at the Odense Teater and in summer stock in Den Fynske Landsby. A minor Vinterberg film.When Dyrholm was eight years old, she began performing with the Odense orchestra. But Anna’s terrible progress towards mental breakdown is very commandingly performed. But the rest of the time there is a lot of subdued murmuring, followed by shouting. There is one tremendously good moment in The Commune: when Freja discovers what is going on between Erik and Anna, and for a long, long minute it isn’t at all clear how she is going to react. ![]() That was much more confident in its (light-hearted) tone and more interesting about the internal group dynamics of a bunch of people living together. It is in fact very different from the film I thought it might resemble: Lukas Moodysson’s 2000 comedy Together, a film about a commune in Sweden in about the same era. The title is a bit misleading: there is no real communal plot development. Nothing, or almost nothing, of any consequence happens to these people. The lack of development in the supporting cast is a problem. ![]() The ensemble that makes up the commune itself stays more or less constant in its emotional temperature: it is Erik’s relationship with Anna, and with his beautiful student Emma (Helene Reingaard Neumann), which is the central point of the film. There is also a child with a heart condition who keeps saying he will not live beyond his ninth birthday – a statement which everyone keeps regarding as an adorable eccentricity, but which the film, with various tense moments, keeps reminding us might be more serious.Īctually, and unexpectedly, the source of this upset comes from without rather than within. There is shy, penniless Allon (Fares Fares), who keeps bursting into tears, boozy Ole (Lars Ranthe), easygoing Mona (Julie Agnete Vang), earnest Ditte (Anne Gry Henningsen) and cuddly Steffen (Magnus Millang). But he amiably goes along with things, and they assemble a gallery of hirsuite, laid-back, cigarette-smoking supporting players for their new drama of communal living. But fluent and confident it certainly is.Īt first, Anna is in charge of what is happening with the help of Freja, she talks Erik into accepting the commune idea, which he finds entirely alien. Like some of the films of Vinterberg’s Danish contemporary Susanne Bier, this looks like the basis for a commercial and easygoing Hollywood remake. ![]() It has none of the ferocity and seriousness of Vinterberg movies such as The Celebration (1998) and The Hunt (2014). And even with Dyrholm, to be frank, it is a slightly middleweight drama, which would perhaps have looked better over three small-screen episodes. Without Dyrholm, The Commune might have just been a breezily watchable, if tonally uncertain soapy melodrama, something to make British audiences in Berlin feel nostalgic for the steamy attractions of TV’s Bouquet of Barbed Wire. Is she allowed ownership of her feelings – and indeed her husband – or not? But having set off down this bold new route of caring and sharing, Anna is unsure how to react when there is a crisis in her own relationship. When Erik inherits his late father’s gigantic family home, Anna suggests they invite various friends and professional acquaintances to move in with them, and so stave off middle-aged, middle-class ennui with a daring experiment in collective living and a stimulating atmosphere of group creativity. The setting is an emotionally fraught commune – what other kind is there? – in 1970s Copenhagen Dyrholm is Anna, a local television newsreader, married to rumpled and sexy university lecturer Erik, played by Ulrich Thomsen they have a shy and intelligent 14-year-old daughter, Freja (Martha Sofie Wallstrom Hansen). ![]()
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