festen

we dogme 95’ers never use the english translation of a non-english film’s title to refer to it, no sir.

i don’t know that i understand what all the dogme criteria are but this cheery little danish film about incest, child-molestation and cake baking (can you guess which one of those it’s not really about?) is pretty damn good. i don’t want to say too much about it yet. what would be cool would be if everyone watched it and then we could discuss it–as opposed to my completely dominating your experience of the film with my superior analysis (a state of affairs that would probably violate the dogme manifesto). so watch the film first and then i’ll dominate you with my superior analysis.

3 thoughts on “festen”

  1. I saw this, and would love to jump in. For the Americans in the audience, it’s “The Celebration.” And it’s good, so see it. Do what Arnab says.

  2. after Dogville, I’m off the Swedes or Danes or whatever. an interesting technique and approach, but what punishing self-importance! even lars himself must have sighed when he was making the scene with james caan and nicole kidman inside the gangster’s limo. but it did inspire me to mount a production of The Nibelungenlied inside my high school gymnasium.

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