Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round” begins with the frenzied depiction of Danish youth completing a beer “case race,” though the debauched fun is fleeting for us – and them. The sequence collides with the film’s opening title cards, which quickly cede to a more sobering reality: a dry faculty meeting. Vinterberg’s opening clearly establishes the dichotomy that his characters try to resist and avoid, the depressing idea that life only exists in peaks and valleys.

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