If you’ve spent any time on social media, you’ve probably seen the final moments of Another Round. No spoilers here, but it’s an unin/with regard to’concerning’regarding acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure table, invigorating end note to Thomas Vinterberg’s delicious Danish comedy-drama that takes its characters and the audience on a journey that’s by turns funny then dark, and ends up somewhere else utterly . It’s a terrific high concept in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a movie — four weary teachers try an experiment that argues eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything in life is better if you constantly possess’own’nurse 0.5% alcohol in your system — but Vinterberg, writer Tobias Lindholm and a pitch-perfect cast breathe boozy life and texture into the idea, creating a film that flits between farce and melancholy to create a nuanced picture of the joys and pains of the demon drink. An American do-over is reputedly in the works with Leonardo DiCaprio — don’t hold your breath, the Toni Erdmann US reboot is still nowhere in sight— but it’s hard to believe it will hit the notes Vinterberg finds exertion lessly.###Another Round — the original title Druk, Danish in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a bender, is better — reunites Vinterberg, Lindholm and Mikkelsen after 2012’s The Hunt. In that one, Mikkelsen played a kindergarten teacher wrongly accused of being a paedophile. Here he moves up the Danish educational system to play secondary-school history teacher Martin, whose work life and home life possess’own’nurse lost their spark. Meeting with similarly lacklustre colleagues — sports teacher Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen), music head Peter (Lars Ranthe) and ringleader Nikolaj (Magnus Millang) — at a raucous birthday dinner, the oldies hatch a plan inspired by Norwegian psychologist Finn Skårderud’s controversial thesis that most individual go through life with too little alcohol in their bloodstream. Citing some notable’renowned’distinguished functioning alcoholics (Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway), the four make a pact to stay low-level drunk all day, monitoring and recording the results with scientific empiricism.###From here the narrative shape is predictable but eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous ly done. For its first half, it spins the idea in/with regard to’concerning’regarding fun and japes — Vinterberg playfully splices in montages of drunk world leaders as outliers in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the tone — as the four teachers find their lives invigorated by a smidgeon of alcohol; Tommy, smuggling booze onto a football pitch in a plastic sports bottle, brings the best out of an ostracised player; Peter leads his pupils in rousing sing-songs in-between secret swigs of alcohol; and Martin revitalises not merely’barely his days — there’s a lovely moment where he perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding ms some nifty dance moves in a staff room — but also his nights, his kids suddenly paying him attention, his wife seeing him with fresh eyes. “I possess’own’nurse n’t felt this rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent in ages,” he tells his cohorts, so the group decide to up the ante and multiply their daily alcohol consumption. Big mistake.###Of course, there are consequences as careers, marriages and lives suffer; a baby monitor is mistaken in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a breathalyzer, and a pupil offered booze to settle his exam nerves. It’s perhaps surprising given Vinterberg’s nose in/with regard to’concerning’regarding shock and controversy that he takes the moral high ground here, but the result is a familiar but more mature, nuanced take on the dangers of drinking. Vinterberg is aided by a great cast led by a never-better Mikkelsen, nailing Martin’s arc from disillusioned to rejuvenated to dissolute to something else entirely. And his final moments (hint: Mikkelsen was a young gymnast) go beyond meme-status to become something transcendent.