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The celebration, Festen, written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg

Label
The celebration, Festen, written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg
Language
dan
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
The celebration
Medium
videorecording Blu-ray
Responsibility statement
written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg
Runtime
105
Series statement
Criterion collection
Sub title
Festen
Summary
On a wealthy man's 60th birthday, a huge group of family and friends convenes at his country estate for a celebration that soon spirals into bedlam, as bombshell revelations threaten to tear away the veneer of bourgeois respectability and expose their traumas. The handheld camera work, grainy natural lighting, cacophonous diegetic sound, and raw performance style that would become Dogme hallmarks enhance the shattering visceral impact of this caustic indictment of patriarchal failings, which swings between blackest comedy and bleakest tragedy as it turns the sick soul of a family inside out
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Festen
Classification
resource.filmdirector