Festen: 10th Year Anniversary Edition

Festen: 10th Year Anniversary Edition [DVD] [1998] REVIEW

A man celebrates his sixtieth birthday with friends, relatives, his wife and children. This is a film about love, hate, the icy charm of the bourgeoisie and the loving arms of the chambermaid. Danish dialogue.

Most probably still the best Scandinavian movie out there
Vinterberg's Festen is a true masterpiece - it intertwines everything from awful family secrets coming to light during the father's 60th birthday celebration, to the relationships between siblings, racism, and and an extreme version of 'looking the other way'.

It is tragic, insightful, as well as deeply funny in a slightly disturbed way. Of all the Dogme 95 movies this one still works best in my opinion and it should also not be so hard to stomach as The Idiots [1999] [DVD] for most viewers. The gritty realism dictated by the manifesto adds very well to the topic being addressed in the movie.

It is definitely - as other reviewers have pointed out - a movie to buy, as repeated watching it does not detract from its quality, there is always the same sense of anticipation, and subsequently contentment for having seen and enjoyed it yet again.

Festen: 10th Year Anniversary Edition [DVD] [1998]
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg

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