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The Celebration(Festen)

  • Dir: Thomas Vinterberg

  • Denmark, 1998, Danish, 101mins, DCP

  • Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen

Thomas Vinterberg was still in his twenties when he made this breakthrough film announcing the Dogme 95 movement. As the birthday festivities unfold for a wealthy, powerful patriarch at the family’s palatial hotel, skeletons emerge from the closet with a series of shocking revelations courtesy of his eldest son and heir apparent. Much like Kristian Levring’s Dogme 95 production The King Is Alive (a reimagining of King Lear), The Celebration finds inspiration in Shakespeare, not to mention Denmark’s most famous prince, with allusions to Hamlet throughout. Fiendishly entertaining as a revenge drama, the film also mercilessly satirises the sexism, racism, and classism of Old World Europe.

Cannes Film Festival: Jury Prize

New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Foreign Language Film

    Screening:

    In-theatre Screening

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    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.