The Celebration
The Celebration

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When a father turns 60, his large family gathers at a castle to celebrate him. Everybody likes and respects him deeply--or do they? The youngest son is trying to live up to his father's expectations; he runs a grill-bar in a dirty part of Copenhagen. The oldest son runs a restaurant in France; the sister is an anthropologist. The older sister has recently committed suicide and the father asks the oldest son to say a few words about her, because he is afraid he will break into... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Celebration:

Ulrich Thomsen
Henning Moritzen
Thomas Bo Larsen
Paprika Steen
Birthe Neumann
Trine Dyrholm

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When a father turns 60, his large family gathers at a castle to celebrate him. Everybody likes and respects him deeply--or do they? The youngest son is trying to live up to his father's expectations; he runs a grill-bar in a dirty part of Copenhagen. The oldest son runs a restaurant in France; the sister is an anthropologist. The older sister has recently committed suicide and the father asks the oldest son to say a few words about her, because he is afraid he will break into tears if he does it himself. The oldest son agrees without argument. Actually he has already written two speeches. A yellow and a green one. At the table, he asks the father to pick a speech. The father chooses green. The oldest son announces that this is the Speech of Truth. Everybody laughs, except for the father, who looks nervous: he knows that his oldest son is about to reveal the secret of why his sister killed herself.

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The New York Times - 9/10 by Janet MaslinThough it dedicates itself to avoiding directorial egotism, in accordance with strict rules of the Danish filmmakers' collective known as Dogma 95, Thomas Vinterberg's Celebration is still a virtuoso feat.
ReelViews - 9/10 by James Berardinellihe Celebration rips apart the placid facade of a familiar subject, leaving its audience stunned. As difficult as the film can at times be, the patient viewer will be rewarded.
Entertainment Weekly - 9/10 by Lisa SchwarzbaumOut of the zany strictures of Dogma 95...Danish newcomer Thomas Vinterberg has made a funny, volatile, visually dynamic story about the unraveling of one extended family during the course of a patriarchal 60th-birthday dinner.
Austin Chronicle - 9/10 by Marjorie BaumgartenThis Danish film is an alternately funny and harrowing look at a family crisis, a meltdown that blends the needs of the truthsayers with the instincts of the let's-bury-our-heads-in-the-sand-and-pretend-none-of-this-is-happening types.
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by Edward GuthmannDespite the awkward, stomach- churning camera movements and the grainy, flat images that come with insufficient lighting, the actors' work is often riveting and compelling.
Chicago Sun-Times - 8/10 by Roger EbertIt's a tribute to The Celebration that the style and the story don't stumble over each other. The script is well planned, the actors are skilled at deploying their emotions, and the long day's journey into night is fraught with wounds that the farcical elements only help to keep open.
Variety - 5/10 by Godfrey CheshireA propulsively inventive but uneven family comedy-cum-melodrama.
User Review - 10/10 by ZapadorThis would have to be somewhere on my personal Top 3, so brilliant in every little detail. It deals with almost the entire spectrum of emotions, from melancholic to extremely funny - at times these sort of extremes even co-exist without ever interfering with each other in a bad way. A true masterpiece. The fact it had a budget of just 1.3 million USD makes it that much more impressive! I'm not really sure to what extend this movie works outside of Denmark, I'd imagine one would have to be Danish to fully grasp every subtle but brilliant detail this movie has to offer.
User Review - 9/10 by NickTheCritickA wealthy Danish family celebrates the patriarch's 60th birthday. Everyone arrives, children and friends, even the servants participate. Everything is beautiful, perfect, polite. Memories flow. Until someone makes a toast that evokes some little skeletons in the birthday boy's closet. For me clearly the best film by Thomas Vinterberg. Shot with a frenetic camera work a real stylistic homage to Von Trier.
User Review - 8/10 by SpangleOne of the first works from the avant garde film movement, Dogme 95, The Celebration is a fantastic work from director Thomas Vinterberg. A compelling and thoroughly entertaining look at this broken and dysfunctional family, the film feels almost like a home movie and that we are getting this exclusive behind the scenes look. In this aspect, the camera work is phenomenal and really puts you into the film and makes it feel as though you are watching this all unfold. The lack of music is an interesting touch that is honestly unnoticeable. The film did not need a score and did not have one, which really added to the realism of the film as a whole. The acting was fantastic, as was the writing, which really added great depth and authenticity to the various characters in the film. For a film that did not really focus on a single character as the protagonist, it never felt disjointed and was still incredibly focused. Overall, The Celebration is a fantastic film that is really well made and a powerful look at family.

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