The Drama (2026)
Directed by Kristoffer Borgli
A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.
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Director
Ruben Östlund
Critics invoke Östlund by name, and compare The Drama to 1 of Östlund’s films.
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…reminiscent of a dialed down version of Borgli’s fellow Scandinavian Ruben Östlund’s high-wire acts…
Esta cualidad acerca la película a la tradición de cineastas como Ruben Östlund o Thomas Vinterberg, aunque Borgli se distingue por una inclinación más marcada hacia el cinismo…
…humor of the sort found in dark comedies like THE SQUARE…
Director
Lars von Trier
Critics invoke Trier by name, and compare The Drama to 1 of Trier’s films.
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On Trier, rather than any one film
…continue to position him as an A24-friendly Lars von Trier…
…feel like they have more in common with Danish rascals like Lars Von Trier and Nicolas Winding Refn than Borgli's Norwegian contemporaries.
The film may not quite hit the mortifying highs of its obvious forebears, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Thomas Vinterberg’s The Celebration, given their especially dark revelations, but its climax is memorably unbearable nonetheless.
On Allen, rather than any one film
And while Woody Allen’s influence is hard to ignore, Borgli is a bit too self-consumed, giving us a film that is pretentious, overblown, and sadly unnecessary.
However, when a filmmaker cites Woody Allen as his inspiration for justifying a pedophilic romance…
(Borgli’s Dream Scenario suffered from a similarly discursive editing scheme.)
A diferencia de Sick of Myself, donde el exceso y lo grotesco operaban como mecanismos de crítica, o de Dream Scenario, donde el absurdo adquiría una dimensión colectiva, aquí la estrategia es más contenida, pero también más calculada.
As in Borgli’s “Dream Scenario,” a person turns into a meme before our eyes.
His previous A24 satire “Dream Scenario” explored similar territory around validation, conformity, and the moral weight we assign to people based on experiences they may not have actively committed.
Bold Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, who previously generated meaningful emotional friction with films such as Sick of Myself (2022) and Dream Scenario (2023), stumbles heavily in his latest feature, The Drama.
…his third film and first feature distributed through A24, Dream Scenario. It was with that particular movie that Borgli seemed to be cementing himself as A24’s Norwegian Ari Aster (and yes, Aster even has a producer credit on it). Not to mention cementing himself as a director who could secure “stars.” In that case, it was Nicolas Cage…
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…a nervy A24 anxiety spiral that sits comfortably alongside ‘Uncut Gems’ and ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’.
Pattinson channels a jittery, anxiety-riddled performance that recalls the relentless nervous energy of Adam Sandler in “Uncut Gems.”
A24 actor-in-residence (I mean, Uncut Gems, Marty Supreme, The Moment, and now this), Hailey Benton Gates…
Sex and the City did it glibly in season one, in the episode titled “Three’s a Crowd.” But no, surprisingly, it’s not Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) who comes up with the question, but Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), casually telling Carrie as they walk down the street, “How well do we ever know the people we sleep with?” Later in the episode, when Carrie finds out that Mr. Big (Chris Noth) was married before, she realizes, “Charlotte was right, we don’t really know the people we sleep with.”
Director
Thomas Vinterberg
Critics invoke Vinterberg by name, and compare The Drama to 1 of Vinterberg’s films.
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On Vinterberg, rather than any one film
Esta cualidad acerca la película a la tradición de cineastas como Ruben Östlund o Thomas Vinterberg, aunque Borgli se distingue por una inclinación más marcada hacia el cinismo…
The film may not quite hit the mortifying highs of its obvious forebears, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Thomas Vinterberg’s The Celebration, given their especially dark revelations, but its climax is memorably unbearable nonetheless.
Borgli recalibrates the technique, shifting it from feeling like a Family Guy cutaway to something closer to Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage.
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“The Drama” is more awkward than Larry David squirming out of a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” jam.
…a film not about school-shooting as in the similarly disguised Elephant…