Another Round (2020)

Nominated for Best Director and Best International Feature    I don't know who needed this movie.  It's 2020.  How many people need to be told that alcohol is only good in moderation?

Four Danish schoolteachers decide to perform a social experiment on themselves to see if maintaining a constant alcohol buzz improves their work and lives.  Results are positive, so they expand the parameters to adjust for individual tolerances and then to maximum limits.  Predictably, this is where it all goes wrong.

I will say in its favor that Another Round focuses on the causes of addiction (in this case, loneliness and lack of fulfillment) rather than browbeat watchers with the recovery, which American films are wont to do.  Also, this one has Mads Mikkelsen doing a dance routine at the end.  Which is the most unbelievable part, because the students are just celebrating and not freaking the fuck out.  If I even saw one of my high school teachers in the grocery store, I would have been mortified, much less seeing them leap off a park bench like Gene Kelly.  I would have died on the spot.  And these kids are just like, "oh ho, that Martin.  Such a cut up."  

It's currently streaming on Hulu.