Ulrich Thomsen
Christian Klingenfeldt
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A darkly comic journey into forbidden family territory. No one can ignore a person like Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt, so his 60th birthday requires a celebration. Friends and relatives scurry to the country estate. Eventually, every family's secrets will come out.
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.
Nov 13, 1998 · Thomas Vinterberg's "The Celebration" mixes farce and tragedy so completely that it challenges us to respond at all. There are moments when a small, choked laugh begins in the audience and is then instantly stifled, as we realize a scene is not intended to be funny. Or is it?
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 freedoms of digital video to achieve annihilating emotional intensity.
The Celebration is a 1998 Danish black comedy-drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and produced by Nimbus Film. It tells the story of a family gathering to celebrate their patriarch's 60th birthday, during which a family secret is revealed.
Oct 9, 1998 · The Celebration - Metacritic. 1998. R. October Films. 1 h 45 m. Summary At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed. Drama. Directed By: Thomas Vinterberg. Written By: Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov. The Celebration. Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews. 82.
Starring Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen. 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 freedoms of digital video to achieve annihilating emotional intensity.
