Festen = the celebration /
On a wealthy man's 60th birthday, a huge 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 their traumas. The handheld camera work, grainy n...
| Uniform Title: | Festen (Motion picture) |
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| Corporate Authors: | , |
| Other Authors: | , , , , , |
| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | Danish |
| Language Notes: | Danish dialogue with opitional English subtitles. |
| Published: |
[United States] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2022]
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| Edition: | 2 Blu-ray edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
1108. |
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| Summary: | On a wealthy man's 60th birthday, a huge 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 their traumas. The 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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. Full screen (1.33:1). Special features: Audio commentary from 2005 featuring Vinterberg; new interview from Vinterberg; two early short films by Vinterberg: Last Round (1993) and The Boy Who Walked Backwards (1995); The Purified, a 2002 documentary about Dogme 95; program in which Vinterbert discusses the real-life inspiration for the film; documentaries featuring members of the cast and crew at the film's premiere in Copenhagen; ADM:DOP, a 2003 documentary of cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle; deleted scenes; essay by Michael Koresky. |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet. |
| Format: | Blu-ray, full screen (1.33:1); region A; monaural; requires Blu-ray player. |
| ISBN: | 9781681439044 1681439042 |