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A breathtaking, landmark film - the first to adhere to the DOGME95 Manifesto - FESTEN won a swag of international awards – including the Jury prize at Cannes - and garnered wide public acclaim. Filmed in real time, Thomas Vinterberg’s chilling examination of familial disintegration personifi es the Dogme style – sweeping handheld camera work, unforced dramatics, and powerful realism.
We are shown the Klingenfeldt family on the eve of the patriarch’s 60th birthday; but with his daughter’s recent suicide already destabilising the precarious family equilibrium, the doomed celebration soon begins its downward spiral.
