Sunday on the couch! Zeweed brings you your film of the weekend: Drunk by Thomas Vinterberg; an ode to the freedom to live life as you would like to hear it.
Four friends decide to put into practice a Norwegian psychologist’s theory that humans are born with a deficit of alcohol in their blood. With scientific rigor, each of them takes up the challenge, hoping that their lives will be all the better for it! While the results are initially encouraging, the situation quickly spirals out of control.
But there’s more to the story than just 4 weary high school teachers escaping the monotony of their lives through the neck of a bottle of booze.
No, Drunk is above all a defense of joy, lightness and innocence. A profound film about the melancholy of lifestyles after 40. It’s about depression, alienation from work and, above all, existences that no longer know how to live or love.
Between the humane cinema of Cassavetes and the delirious Marco Ferreri, Thomas Vinterbeg makes a fine gift. It’s the film to see if you want to rediscover the taste for get-togethers around a table, friendship, laughter, dancing and general euphoria. Those grains of madness that, in these covid times, we miss so much.
