The Celebration
by Thomas Vinterberg
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Actor: Birthe Neumann, Henning Moritzen, Paprika Steen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Ulrich ThomsenDirector: Thomas Vinterberg
Brand: Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Danish (Original Language); English (Original Language); German (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Celebration
Movie Review: Everything is OK in Denmark
Summary: 4 Stars
On father's 60th birthday son disclosed a grim reality of a financially well stuffed family in which paedophilia, incest, suicide were well based on xenophobia and predominantly racist approaches so common in societies with opportunities inherited.
A bit long, low-budget tragedy with a broad-imaginary resource.
Summary of The Celebration
A dark secret mars a danes 60th birthday celebration attended by his family & friends. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Ulrich Thomsen Birthe Neumann Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R Director: Thomas VinterbergRising 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. (Dogma 95 is a Danish filmmakers collective that also includes Lars von Trier, director of Breaking the Waves. The group crafted a manifesto in which its members vow to eschew special lighting, optical effects, props, and the visible imprint of a director's personality in order to attain higher truths yielded by characters.) The Celebration, shot with a small video camera and transferred to 35mm film, concerns a black-tie birthday gathering for a family patriarch, Helge (Henning Moritzen), which erodes into a battle after long-suppressed secrets are revealed and the chance to settle old scores presents itself. Among the grievances are an accusation of incest and the responsibility for the death of a child--gruesome stuff, but Vinterberg doesn't characterize the partying crowd's reaction in quite the way one might have expected. In fact, the whole of The Celebration is about unexpected perspectives and vantage points emerging from out of nowhere, largely due to Vinterberg's free hand at editing the film in such a way as to yank truth from every corner. This is a strong work that belies skepticism over Dogma 95's bare-bones trendiness, and is perhaps a harbinger of great work to come from Vinterberg. --Tom Keogh
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