Tuesday, 27 Apr 2021 07:31 AM MYT
“I find that alcohol in the movie is a symbol for something larger than just drinking,” Vinterberg, 51, told Reuters in an interview. Mikkelsen, whose character finds a brief boost and enlightenment from drinking, performs an extended drunken dance at the end of the film and is frozen in time in the final scene as he throws himself off a wharf in Copenhagen.
In his acceptance speech on Sunday, Vinterberg dedicated the Academy Award to his late daughter Ida, 19, who was to have had a role in the film but was killed in an automobile accident.