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- In 1995, director Lars von Trier contacted Thomas Vinterberg, whom he considered the most promising young Danish filmmaker. (Vinterberg had then not yet made his first feature film, The Biggest Heroes, but had directed two well-regarded shorts, Last Round and The Boy Who Walked Backwards.)
- In addition to founders von Trier and Vinterberg, the group’s main members also included Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. This core is often referred to as the Dogme “brethren,” but the movement was not merely a boys’ club.
- Though the movement was established in 1995, it wasn’t until a few years later that Vinterberg completed the first Dogme film with The Celebration (Festen).
- Vinterberg drew inspiration for the film from a 1996 Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) broadcast detailing a speech given by a caller pseudonymously named Allan at his stepfather’s sixtieth birthday party.
Celebration. Rising to the challenge of Dogma 95's self-imposed restrictions on aesthetic freedom, Thomas Vinterberg's The Celebration is a remarkable example of the way limits can give rise to creative opportunity.
The Celebration (Danish: Festen) 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.
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.
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Nov 13, 1998 · The Celebration. 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.
Jan 11, 2022 · Melodrama, with its propensity for emotional revelation, provides an opportunity for Vinterberg to push viewers into a realm of true discomfort, turning us into spectators at the world’s worst family reunion.
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May 18, 1998 · Thomas Vinterberg‘s “The Celebration” arrives in the Cannes competition touting its adherence to the principals of Dogma 95, an artistic manifesto issued three years ago by Danish filmmakers...
