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Critic Caroline Rees
rated 6

Assuming viewers aren't rendered terminally queasy by the cinematography (...) Festen is a fierce dissection of family life.

Read full review at Empire
Rut Vadvvarm
rated 10

The most nerv wrecking movie ever. I was exhausted after the movie…

1 year ago
Malin E
rated 10

Best film ever!

2 years ago
rudolphnordstro
rated 10

One of the Best films ever created. Actresses and Actors, cutting, camera, everything! 10/10

2 years ago
Nikita Stroeman
rated 10

@Henning Horn have you still not seen this one??

2 years ago
David Mühle
rated 10

@Henning Horn saw this for the 2nd time recently. Worth watching again!!

3 years ago
Critic Marjorie Baumgarten
rated 8

Vinterberg, cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, and the unflappable cast have created a virtuosic work.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle
Marie Kössler
rated 10

Outstanding.

2 months ago

Cast & Crew

Thomas Vinterberg
As Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Birthe Neumann
As Moderen
Paprika Steen
As Helene
Lars Brygmann
As Receptionisten
Thomas Bo Larsen
As Michael

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A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech dislodges all the masks, which finally fall completely as the father-son conflict intensifies and the bewildered guests look on.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Celebration include The Shawshank Redemption, Radio, Good Will Hunting, Fight Club, Magnolia, The Hours.