The Commune relates the story of a middle-class couple who decide to invite an assorted bunch of people to fill the big house they've inherited as an experiment in communal living (in the seventies, of course). Along the way, the usual tropes of fiction on the topic crop up: there are squabbles about budgets and habits, and the project turns sour as the father and owner, who entered into the undertaking unwillingly, engages in an affair with one of his students, which makes his wife bitterly regret taking the idea so lightly.
Nothing out of the ordinary as such occurs, and the film is therefore heavily reliant on realistic depictions of interpersonal relationships - which it mostly manages, except for some uncertainty of tone when it can't decide whether to satirise the cohabitants instead - and indebted to strong performances, particularly by Trine Dyrholm as the naive wife whose life is ruined by the changes. But, overall, it doesn't really add anything new to the theme.
5/10
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