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Radio 4,01 Jul 2021,28 mins

Thomas Vinterberg

The Film Programme

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With Antonia Quirke Festen director Thomas Vinterberg discusses the personal tragedy behind his latest film, Another Round. Friendship's Death is a 1987 movie about a journalist and an alien who meet in a hotel room in Jordan and discuss art, ethics and artificial intelligence. Its producer Rebecca O'Brien reveals how she got the film made for £180,000 and whether or not that kind of avant-garde work would get financed today.

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