 A film in three minutes, another round. The ancient Greek comic play writes Yuboulos once said of wine, the first cup is to health, the second to love and pleasure, the third cup to sleep, the fourth to violence, the fifth cup to uproar, the sixth to drunken revel. And I suspect I don't need to continue for you to guess where Yuboulos was going with this, but four friends who sadly didn't get the memo are about to find out in Thomas Vinterberg's 2020 drama Another Round, a cinematic exploration of inebriation, masterfully directed and featuring stellar performances that will make you marry with delight before leaving you with a killer hangover. Set in Vinterberg's native Denmark, a country with some of the highest rates of teenage drinking in the world, Another Round, or Druck in Danish, which literally translates to binge drinking, follows the lives of four middle-aged educators whose enthusiasm for their profession is found wanting by their soon-to-be-graduated students and their parents. Depressed and bored with life, the four men learn of a paper penned by Norwegian psychiatrist and professor Thin Skaldäø, who theorises how humans are born with a blood-alcohol content deficiency of 0.05%, and that if such a level was raised, then people would be more creative and relaxed. Upon learning this, the teachers decide to embark on a social experiment of their own by drinking at regular intervals and then logging the results. However, what begins as a tipsy first foot into this world of empirical intoxication slowly descends into an all-consuming self-destructive addiction. If you are of a creative mind, then you'll probably be no stranger to the positive effects moderate alcohol consumption can bring at times. It's no secret how many successful artists, writers, politicians, teachers and all-around geniuses have existed throughout human history, who are also completely slashed. But despite the film's initially comic interpretation of drinking, Winterberg's unsympathetic camera quickly captures the darker side such half-in-the-bag behaviour contains with chilling effect, never flinching from the ugly, depressing and all-around terrifying reality that resides at the bottom of every drink as the experiment goes off the rails and the price the four men pay steadily becomes dearer. Madd Mickelson achieves the best performance of his career, playing a character who conveys the bitter lessons that marriage, family, career success and even friendship don't necessarily bring us the happiness we are all told it will, with a nuanced pain and ecstatic joy that has to be seen to be believed. So, the next time you decide to imbibe that beloved gift from Dionysus, perhaps take a moment to reflect on your own relationship with alcohol and ask yourself if you truly need another round.