Festen = The celebration
Thomas Vinterberg (Film director, Screenwriter), Birgitte Hald (Film producer), Mogens Rukov (Screenwriter), Ulrich Thomsen (Actor), Henning Moritzen (Actor), Thomas Bo Larsen (Actor), Paprika Steen (Actor), Birthe Neumann (Actor), Trine Dyrholm (Actor), Helle Dolleris (Actor), Therese Glahn (Actor), Anthony Dod Mantle, Valdís Óskarsdóttir (Editor of moving image work), Lars Bo Jensen, Nimbus Film (Firm) (Presenter, Production company), Dogme 95 (Group) (Production company), Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
"The Danish Dogme 95 movement that struck world cinema like a thunderbolt began with The Celebration, Thomas Vinterberg's international breakthrough, a lacerating chamber drama that uses the economic and aesthetic freedom of digital video to achieve annihilating emotional intensity. On a wealthy man's sixtieth birthday, a sprawling 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 the traumas roiling beneath. The dynamic 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"--Container
Bluray Video, Danish, 2022
Director-approved two-Blu-ray edition
The Criterion Collection, [New York, N.Y.], 2022