‘Raw’ personal loss inspired Vinterberg’s Oscar-nominated dark booze comedy

LOS ANGELES – “Another Round,” a film about a pact by four world-weary Danish schoolteachers to spend every day drunk for a loosely scientific “experiment,” was always going to walk a fine line between comedy and darkness.

Director Thomas Vinterberg wrote his script, originally a play, upon realizing many of the world’s great historic feats were made by people regularly intoxicated on alcohol — the very same substance that can rip lives and families apart.

But four days into shooting, Vinterberg’s daughter was killed in a car crash. He somehow still finished the uniquely funny, tender and tragic film — which has earned…