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When we meet Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen), the sun is, literally and metaphorically, perpetually shining on him. He has a sweet, sexy relationship with his wife, an actress named Maria (Lisa Werlinder), and he owns a chic, prospering restaurant in Stockholm. Best of all, he has escaped his oppressive family and its grim, old-economy business--a Danish steelworks. But then his father commits suicide, leaving the business a mess, with Christoffer as its only possible savior. As he takes up his task, The Inheritance recounts the shutting down of his spirit--or should we say the flowering of his inner...
...chronicle of Metallica's group-therapy sessions. "It's very emotional," says Berlinger. "You watch this family tear themselves apart and put themselves back together. There were definitely times when I wondered: Why the hell are they letting us film this?" When shooting commenced in 2001, Metallica - drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and singer James Hetfield - were starting a new album, dealing with the resignation of bassist Jason Newsted, and entering therapy with performance-enhancement coach Phil Towle. With their record label, Elektra, the band hired Berlinger and co-director Bruce Sinofsky (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost) to document...
...Metallica are hardly over their dysfunction. Towle still visits once in a while, and during the band's current 18-month world tour, Ulrich says, "we've had two or three, well, blowups isn't the right word. But right away we were able to sit down and talk it through. We're never going to be the same people, but now we actually appreciate our differences." Those differences are in sharpest relief when they discuss Monster. Ulrich feels "liberated and proud." Hetfield, who began the movie as such an emotional recluse that he barely remembers assenting...
...watching the band members interact. "Back then, I didn't know how to deal with my anger," says Hetfield, 40, who does a fair impression of Stanley Kowalski during the first half of the movie. "I'd bottle it up and then explode on an easy target. Usually Lars." Ulrich, 40, an impish Dane, says, "I always felt it was my duty to be the one guy to stand up to James. So I'd press his buttons." Hammett, 41, shy and soft-spoken, would try to play the peacemaker. "I've always been monkey in the middle," he says...
...month fee, could prevent things from going nuclear. After one particularly brutal argument, Hetfield storms out of the studio and slams the door behind him. Without a word of explanation, he goes into rehab for alcohol addiction and does not return for 11 months. Ulrich and Hammett watch their ex-bassist's new band, Echobrain, and wonder if Metallica is washed up. Ulrich is vilified for taking on the band's file-swapping fans. And when Hetfield finally returns, he tries his best not to scowl at the cameras. "Every day I thought about telling [the directors] to turn...