

The film, which shows the glorious highs and the destructive lows of alcohol excess, miraculously avoids lurching into becoming a men-behaving-badly Hangover-style comedy while also steering clear of finger-wagging moral instruction. The song, and the scene it plays over, are an almost-perfect encapsulation of Vinterberg’s dramedy, in which four high-school teachers decide to address their mid-life crises with a dedicated bout of day-drinking. “But that was in a theater for the premiere audience, which is a lot different than playing a real concert,” says Goll.

The only live performance of “What a Life” took place at the Danish premiere of Another Round in September. Oscar Winner 'Another Round' Set for Remake by Endeavor Content, Appian Way, Makeready Then five minutes later we were throwing up all over the place and we blacked out.” “It was like five minutes of just pure heaven, like the greatest joy of my life, almost feeling like being out of our bodies. We were maybe 15 years old,” Goll recalls, grinning sheepishly at the memory. “We shared a bottle of vodka together and we drank it in like 15 minutes. Everyone connected with Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-winning dramedy Another Round has a drinking story.įor Emil Goll, lead singer of Scarlet Pleasure - the band behind the song “What a Life,” which plays over the film’s final, climactic dancing scene - it was his first time being full-out wasted with fellow band member Joachim Dencker, or as the Danes call it, “druk,” the movie’s original title.
