Christina Rosendahl’s film is not quite autobiographical, but, as the director herself emphasizes, a story deeply personal to her. It’s an exploration of one family and the turbulent journey each member undertakes when the father enters rehab for alcohol addiction.

This intimate drama, centered on four characters, offers no obvious answers, striving to be a dialogue rather than a cure.

The presence of Lars Ranthe, familiar from Another Round, seemingly marks the film as a spiritual successor to Thomas Vinterberg’s work. Yet Rosendahl infuses it with far greater empathy and lyricism. It grows out of the everyday life of an ordinary family, reaches into the furthest recesses of their past, and reveals a simple truth: family grief is always shared, and it’s all but impossible to mend that crack alone.

— Hanna Datsiuk