), but he says his approach to an everyman character like Martin is the same. “I can call Thomas in the middle of the night when I have an idea and vice versa,” he says on a videoconference from Spain, where he was taking a few days off after shooting the.
Vinterberg prepared for the film the way he does when embarking on any new project—by cueing up his go-tos. “I watch my share of John Cassavetes and my share of Scorsese, a little bit of Tarkovsky, which is a completely, completely different direction, but I have my heroes,” he says.Cassavetes’s unflinching 1970 portrait of men acting out in the throes of midlife crises, was one lodestar, as was David Fincher’s. “They’re setting up rules for themselves and potentially damaging themselves.
Vinterberg recognizes that luck has had a hand in the film’s reception: COVID did not affect the production, andactually played in the fall in Danish cinemas, albeit briefly, to the best box office performance of any of his films. But its success abroad was far from assured, and Vinterberg admits to being nervous. “In a world as it has looked for the last year, I felt like this could appear slightly irrelevant or even hurt someone. But the opposite seems to have appeared.
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