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Lars von Trier founded the Dogme 95 movement alongside Thomas Vinterberg in the 1990s as a stripped-down, chaste approach to filmmaking — chaste, at least, on visual terms, as there is never anything chaste about a movie from the director of “Breaking the Waves,” “Antichrist,” and “The House That Jack Built.”

But in reality, von Trier only actually made one movie that adhered to Dogme 95’s criteria: including all shooting done on location, no props or sets brought in, diegetic sound and natural light only, and no credits for the filmmaker. That film was 1998’s Danish comedy-drama “The Idiots,” which upon release at the Cannes Film Festival provoked a firestorm of fiercely divided reactions for its fictionalized treatment of disability. Now, independent film distributor and streaming platform Mubi will re-release the film, restored and uncut, on June 16 theatrically at the Metrograph before it hits streaming on July 7. Watch the trailer for the new restoration,...

Title: The Hunt Director: Thomas Vinterberg Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lasse Fogelstrøm, Annika Wedderkopp, Alexandra Rapaport, Anne Louise Hassing, Susse Wold An unsettling, forthright drama about a man falsely accused of sexual child abuse, Danish import “The Hunt” is anchored by a painfully haunting turn from Mads Mikkelsen. Drawing from the McMartin Preschool scandal in Southern California, and similar cases of child abuse hysteria across the United States in the 1980s and ’90s, co-writer-director Thomas Vinterberg fashions a darkly gripping tale in which presumed guilt spreads like a virus, engulfing an entire small town. Having recently lost his job as a secondary school teacher, the divorced Lucas (Mikkelsen) [ Read More ]

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Well, we already knew that Thomas Vinterberg‘s latest project The Hunt is quite disturbing one. But we never knew exactly how much.

Now, when we have two new clips from the whole thing – the mystery is finally solved, this definitely looks like a very tough-to-watch drama. But we still recommend you to check out the rest of this report…

Written and directed by Vinterberg, this movie stars great Mads Mikkelsen as a former school teacher named Lucas, who has been forced to start over after a tough divorce and the loss of his job.

And just when things are starting to go his way, he gets falsely accused of molesting a kindergarten age student. That’s more than enough to throw the small community into a collective state of hysteria.

The lie is spreading and Lucas is forced to fight a lonely fight for his life and dignity, and...

Festen director Thomas Vinterberg storms back to form with this drama about a teacher wrongfully accused of child abuse

As the nation recovers from its Newsnight affair, there could hardly be a more relevant movie than this new one from 43-year-old Danish director Thomas Vinterberg about a wrongful accusation of child abuse. Vinterberg has created a drama-thriller with the atmospheric grip of a horror film; there are echoes of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs and Lars von Trier's Dogville, but the film has its own exemplary power, maturity and intelligence. To see The Hunt is to be reminded of our own recent history: we watched as a flagship news programme suffered a spasm of misjudgment that could have been avoided with a Google image search, and as a TV interviewer solemnly handed to the prime minister his piece of paper, apparently under the impression...

After making big waves with his Dogme classic The Celebration in 1998, Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg has made a handful of flawed and underseen films, whether the genre be post-apocalyptic sci-fi (It’s All About Love) or a pseudo-Western about a group of gun-wielding pacifists (Dear Wendy), that have rendered him largely unnoticed as of late.

Let it be said that his newest work, The Hunt, will stand to change the tide. Starring Mads Mikkelsen in a decidedly, and impressively, domesticated role. Vinterberg takes his time with his narrative, looking into a very 21st century kind of witch hunt. Lucas (Mikkelsen) is a new teacher at a local kindergarten, recently divorced and at odds with his ex-wife over custody of their teenage son. He’s an engaged educator, interacting with the young children and developing close relationships with all of them.

Perhaps his closest relationship is with Klara (Annika Wedderkopp), daughter...

One of the biggest surprises in the Cannes lineup was the return of Dogme 95 co-founder and Lars von Trier cohort Thomas Vinterberg. Not only because his partner-in-crime was handed a persona non grata last year, but also because the helmer has more or less failed to live up to his first Dogme work, "Festen," despite high-profile efforts such as "It's All About Love" starring Joaquin Phoenix, Sean Penn and Claire Danes. But Vinterberg's new film indeed looks promising.

The first images have now been unveiled (via Flix) for "The Hunt," which excitingly teams him with Mads Mikkelsen for a drama set in a small Danish village around Christmas. Scripted by Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm, the story itself follows Lucas, who is accused of a crime he did not commit and must fight to get his life back on track. Here's the synopsis:

Following a tough divorce, 40 year-old Lucas has a new girlfriend,...

Kirsten Dunst in Lars von Trier's apocalyptic drama Melancholia The Danish Film Critics Association's Bodil Pris winners will be announced on March 3. Danske film / Best Danish Film En familie / A Family, Pernille Fischer Christensen SuperClásico, Ole Christian Madsen Frit fald / Rebounce, Heidi Maria Faisst Melancholia, Lars von Trier Dirch / A Funny Man, Martin P. Zandvliet Amerikanske film / Best American Film Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn Winter's Bone, Debra Granik Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky True Grit, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick Ikke-amerikanske film / Best Non-American Foreign Film Another Year, Mike Leigh Nader og Simin – en separation / A Separation, Asghar Farhadi Om guder og mænd / Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois Oslo, 31. august, Joachim Trier Kongens store tale / The King's Speech, Tom Hooper Dokumentarfilm / Best Documentary Testamentet, Christian Sønderby Ambassadøren, Mads Brügger Svend, Anne Regitze Wivel ½ Revolution, Karim El Hakim and Omar Shargawi Præsidenten, Christoffer Guldbrandsen Mandlig...

Thomas Vinterberg (Festen) has signed on to direct The Hunt.

Co-written by Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm (Submarino), The Hunt centers on a recent divorcé who’s accused of abusing a small child.

Mads Mikkelsen, Susse Wold, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe and Anne Louise Hassing are attached to star in the drama, with production expected to start in Denmark at the end of the week.

Expect this one to be released in time for awards season next year.

Source: Screen Daily...

It was thirteen years ago when Dogme 95 co-founder Thomas Vinterberg made an international splash with Festen, or The Celebration, but his career since then hasn’t lived up to that sophomore feature effort. And although this is arguably a little late, it looks like he might finally have something more promising ready to go in the near-future.

ScreenDaily (via ThePlaylist) reports that the director is getting ready to collaborate with Mads Mikkelsen on The Hunt, a drama written by Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm, co-writer on his latest film, Submarino. In the film, the Pusher II star will play “a recent divorcé in a small rural town, who’s accused of abusing a small child.” Those Danes know how to make a fun time at the movies.

Also in the cast are Susse Wold, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Anne Louise Hassing, and shooting will begin soon — like, Friday soon.

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