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The celebration Festen

The celebration Festen

Blu-ray 1998

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 cau...

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Birthday parties Fiction
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ISBN:
9781681439044
Edition:
Director-approved Two-Blu-ray special edition
Description:
2 videodiscs (105 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
full screen
HDTV
video file
Blu-ray video
region A
Target Audience Note:
Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A
MPAA rating: R
Other Title:
Festen
Notes:
Title from container
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998
Ulrich Thomsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen
Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; full screen format (1.33:1 aspect ratio) ; monaural
For private home use only
Audio tracks in Danish, with optional subtitles in English
Contents:
Disc 1. The celebration
Disc 2. Bonus disc
Control Number:
3372850
UPC:
715515267311
Other Authors:
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Larsen, Thomas Bo, 1963- actor
Steen, Paprika, 1964- actor
Thomsen, Ulrich, actor
Vinterberg, Thomas, 1969- film director
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