When a Danish family unite for their fathers 60th birthday, drama unfolds and family secrets are revealed. The film stars Ulrich Thomsen as Christian and Thomas Bo Larsen as his brother Michael. The film was made under the Dogme act and the director was not credited. Thomas Vinterberg wrote the screenplay for this film.
I feel that Festen tries too hard at being a serious family FILM and was completely over the top and mostly laughable and hilarious. Such as the scene in which Christian is repeatedly thrown out of the hotel after a speech in which he reveals one of his families secrets.
It's no secret to the people of my film studies class that I did not enjoy this film, maybe it's because i'm not used to these forgien new wave films and find them damn right odd.
I shan't rate this film because I thought to poorly of it, let's just blame my growing up with big Hollywood blockbusters :)
It's no secret to the people of my film studies class that I did not enjoy this film, maybe it's because i'm not used to these forgien new wave films and find them damn right odd.
I shan't rate this film because I thought to poorly of it, let's just blame my growing up with big Hollywood blockbusters :)
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