New on Blu-ray: THE CELEBRATION / FESTEN (1998) - Criterion Collection

Product Description: Thomas Vinterberg’s still-shocking breakthrough launched the Danish Dogme 95 movement and struck world cinema like a thunderbolt The Danish Dogme 95 movement that struck world cinema like a thunderbolt began with The Celebration, the international breakthrough by Thomas Vinterberg, 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.

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Director: Thomas Vinterberg

Starring: Birthe Neumann, Thomas Bo Larsen, Trine Dyrholm, Henning Moritzen, Paprika Steen, Ulrich Thomsen

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 105 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Danish

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: January 11, 2022

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Region: Region A/1

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Audio commentary from 2005 featuring Vinterberg
New interview with 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, featuring interviews with Vinterberg and filmmakers Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Kristian Levring, and Lars von Trier
Program in which Vinterberg discusses the real-life inspiration for the film
Documentaries featuring members of the cast and crew at the film’s premiere in Copenhagen and reflecting back on the production
ADM:DOP, a 2003 documentary profile of cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle
Deleted scenes, with optional audio commentary by Vinterberg
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic and author Michael Koresky