Festen (Celebration of Family, Denmark, 1998, 106 min).
ACHIEVEMENT
: Thomas Vinterberg, Morgens Rukov, based on an idea by Thomas Vinterberg.
SOUND:
Morten Holm.
Oskardottir Valdis.
PRODUCTION:
Nimbus Film APS.
PERFORMERS:
Deliver Us from father
DOGMA 95 is the new name of the Decalogue which subscribes to Thomas Vinterberg : "You do not poseras your camera, you will not use the music off, thou shalt not own image ... "As always with dogmas, the important thing is not to believe (no Roman Catholic seriously believes in papal infallibility), but force themselves to believe it, and engaging feet bound hand and to truths appearance. In this, the signatories of the charter still have a strong idea: the movie has to comply - with all the transgressions of use - to principles that are unlikely outside. These are not films that impose their form but the form that is imposed on the films.
Festen of
, another Dogme film, except that Vinterberg is more virtuosic and its asserted more disturbing audacity. Result:
Festen is a film much more successful than idiots. Success, moreover, is perhaps not the word since the whole film Vinterberg
Vinterberg
pretends to believe in the democratic art, he knows he must also know they do not know how. For the rest,Festen
resembles a Nordic film as he had already turn away a lot and that the ideal model wouldFanny and Alexander ,
of Ingmar Bergman.A family above all suspicion, big bourgeois and Protestant, met to celebrate the patriarch. But everything goes wrong because one of the son decides to unpack the family secret: the father raped his children. It will take all the film for the guests decide to believe the son violated. Which shows that the question of dogma has practical applications. The truth is never a matter of belief, and the guests are not ready to challenge so easily patriarch who was the faith of their lives. It will take the son, symbolically named Christian , a healthy dose of tenacity and a complicated strategy to produce a new truth, aided by a caring staff, cooks and maids together - domesticity (it's a matter of class) who always another belief that the masters.
This use of the mansion kitchen as a place to comment about the action and hidden motor of the machine refers of course Mongolian cuisines
"Les Cahiers du cinema,"

Dogma Hollywood
, born in Copenhagen in 1969, has grown into a community hippie with no common point with the bourgeois coterie crippled by taboos that demolishes in
If the family as a cell, a set of values, did not structure his imagination, yet it is a utopia family exposed in his first feature film. In Heroes, Thomas Bo Larsen and Ulrich Thomsen
is found. concocted at a corner table with three other filmmakers, Dogma brings to every young Vinterberg
, Lars von Trier Thomas Vinterberg and launch a package of red leaflets in the assembly celebrating the centenary of cinema. "is anti-bourgeois cinema itself became bourgeois , we read this manifesto anti-author recommends not signing films.
1966.
Festen, with its little family film turning sour, arises in such enticing the "purification" style effects.
invited to Cannes in 1998 , deviated from the dogma by yielding to the sirens 'bourgeois' celebrity. He even forgot not to sign Festen ... Dogma will was for him a temporary sesame. Festen, by far his most successful film, it opens the doors of Hollywood for more compromise and a mawkish sentimentality also in
2002). Even adapt in 2003, a scenario Lars von Trier , Dear Wendy, a parable about the use of firearms by American teenagers who did not, far from it The brilliance of the Elephant of Gus van Sant. Overthrow the bad father was not enough to enfant terrible Dogma become spoiled child. Charlotte Garson "Les Cahiers du Cinema"
Preview: Festen (1998) Thomas Vinterberg (Duration: 1 min 34 sec)