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PARTY ON

Today's film was the Danish

Festen / The Celebration (1998)

A father's birthday. Family and friends gather 'round.

Toasts.

The Danes are big with toasts and drinking up. Skoal!

Family truths will out.

And they do here.

This film is made according to Dogme 1 principles which means, mostly, no artificial light, all location shooting, handheld cameras. No frills.

This makes for some woozy watching from the very beginning but has the effect of swirling us up into the frantic party goings on.

At first, it is funny. Then not. Then almost like a thriller. What is truth. What is insanity. What is drunken raving. All comes up for examination.

I saw this before. It is a 5 out of Netflix5. I will see it again when I cool down in a couple of years. I put it at the end of the queue again.

Labels: films