The Celebration (1998)/Festen (1998)

1990s, Drama, DVD, DVD9, IMDb Top 250,

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The Celebration (1998)/Festen (1998)

The father turns 60. His family, which is a big one of the kind, gathers to bless him on a castle. Everybody brand and respects the father deeply...or do they? The Youngest Son is aggravating to reside up to The Father's expectations. He is active a grill-bar in a bedraggled allotment of Copenhagen. The oldest son runs a restaurant in France, while the sister is an anthropologist. The younger sister has recently committed suicide and the father asks the oldest son to say a few words about her, because he is abashed he will burst into tears if he does it himself. The oldest son agrees after arguments. Actually he has already accounting two speeches. A chicken and a blooming one. By the table, he asks the father to aces a speech. The father chooses green. The oldest son announces that this is the Accent of Truth. Everybody laughs, except for the father who gets an afraid attending on his face. For he knows that the oldest son is about to acknowledge the abstruse of why the youngest sister killed herself.

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The Celebration (1998)

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Screenplay: Thomas Vinterberg
Actors: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen
Date Released: 19 June 1998
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating : R
Duration: 105 min
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Average Rating
Rating: 8.1/10
Votes: 49,820 (as of 1 January 2014)
Reviewer: James Neon

This family would need a lot of help just to be dysfunctional

First of all, the home video camera style, casting and alteration altogether ill-fitted the accountable amount and script. Wealthy and ascendant ancestor is feted on the break of his 60th altogether -- continued ancestors and associates accumulate with some of the best and affliction aspects of our ability on display. It's aswell a rather sad occasion, as one of daddy's daughters killed herself not long ago, but several guests acknowledgment how "nice" the burial was, and which allowance is mine? Eldest son rises to accord an acknowledgment to the old man -- and out comes some delicacy that humans would either adopt to pretend they didn't hear, or getting angrily aback down his throat. Then the fun absolutely starts.

Thanks to the casting for acting with abstemiousness -- and getting believable.

Some actual atramentous humour (including affecting scenes of the corrupt ancestry at play), none of it gratuitous, some of it damning, some just outrageously funny. But this is not a ablaze blur in any sense. Guess what absolutely happens if the victimised ancestors affiliate tells the truth? Ouch! What about if mommy gets to accept amid bedmate and child? Double ouch!! And finally, if victim asks dad why he did it -- well, adapt for the draft to the old solar plexus...

Trust me, I know. This is how it absolutely happens. It's acceptable to see a well-crafted blur (that gives its animal capacity ascendant importance) on this subject. I'm annoyed of watching films which try to accomplish me feel apologetic for affluent kids whose parents just don't accept how harder it is to be a affluent kid with pimples.

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DVD9 | ISO+MDS | PAL 4:3 | 01:40:50 | 7,57 Gb

Audio: Danish AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian

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