The celebration Festen
Blu-ray - 2022
"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 shatteri...ng 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
- Subjects
- Genres
- Dark comedy films
Drama
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection
[2022]
- Language
- Danish
- Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- Director-approved two-Blu-ray edition ; Blu-ray edition
- Item Description
- Title and credits from screen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
Full screen (1.33:1).
Accompanying booklet (20 pages) includes: description of Dogme 95 movement ; the Dogme 95 vow of chastity ; cast and credits list ; How long can this go on? / an essay by Michael Koresky ; reproduction information.
Special features: Disc 1: Audio commentary from 2005 featuring director Thomas Vinterberg; new interview from Vinterberg; trailer -- Disc 2: two early short films by Vinterberg: Sidste omgang = Last round (1993) and Drengen der gik baglæns = The boy who walked backwards (1995); De lutrede = The purified (2002 documentary directed by Jesper Jargil, about Dogme 95); Disclosure of The celebration (program in which Vinterbert discusses the real-life inspiration for the film); Behind the scenes (1998 television documentary featuring members of the cast and crew at the film's premiere in Copenhagen); The celebration in retrospect (2005 documentary featuring members of the cast and crew); ADM:DOP (2003 documentary on cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle); deleted scenes. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Blu-ray, region A; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; LPCM monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Anthony Dod Mantle ; editor, Valdís Óskarsdottír ; music, Lars Bo Jensen.
- ISBN
- 9781681439044
- Disc 1. Feature film
- Disc 2. Short films ; special features.