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The Celebration
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Danish
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign films.
- Drama.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1998
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2023
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- 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. 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
- Participant:
- Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Ulrich Thomsen
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1998
- Publisher Number:
- 14354668 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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