The Celebration (Danish: Festen) is a 1998 Danish black comedy-drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and produced by Nimbus Film. It tells the story of a family gathering to celebrate their patriarch's 60th birthday, during which a family secret is revealed.
Skjoldenæsholm Castle was the filming location of Festen.
Festen was the first film of the Dogme 95 movement, which was created by Vinterberg and his fellow Danish director Lars von Trier. The movement preferred simple and analog production values to allow for the highlighting of plot and performance. The film won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival and was selected as the Danish entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, but it was not chosen as one of the final five nominees for the award.[1]
Plot
Helge, a respected businessman and family patriarch, is celebrating his 60th birthday at the family-run hotel. Gathered together amongst a large party of family and friends are his wife Else, his sullen eldest son Christian, his rude and arrogant younger son Michael, and his well-traveled daughter Helene. Another sibling, Linda, has recently taken her life at the hotel. Helene finds Linda's suicide note, but hides it in a medicine bottle after becoming upset by the undisclosed contents. Michael fights with his wife, whom he had earlier abandoned on the roadside with their three children, and then has sex with her. He later beats Michelle, a waitress of the hotel, after she pulls him aside to discuss that he had impregnated her in an affair.
At Helge's birthday dinner, Christian makes a toast to his father. During the toast, he publicly accuses Helge of sexually abusing both him and his twin sister Linda as children. After an initial shocked silence, the party goes on as usual as guests decide to move past the moment in denial. Helge pulls Christian aside to engage in a baffled conversation about his accusations. He questions his motivations for slandering him, and Christian appears to recant his accusation. However, Christian is spurred to further action by hotel chef Kim, a childhood friend who knows about the abuse. Kim orders Pia and Michelle to hide the guests' car keys. Christian then continues his toast by accusing Helge of causing Linda's death through the trauma of the abuse. Helge speaks to Christian alone and makes threatening offers to bring up his troubled personal history, including his impotence with women and Christian's perhaps-incestuous relationship with Linda.
Further exacerbating the tensions of the day, Helene's black boyfriend Gbatokai shows up, causing the racist Michael to lead most of the partygoers in singing the racist Danish song "Jeg har set en rigtig negermand" to offend him. Elsie later makes a toast where she makes insulting comments towards her children, and accuses Christian of having an overactive imagination. With this, she asks him to apologize for his earlier statements and accusations. Christian then accuses Elsie of knowing about the abuse yet not intervening. Michael and two other guests eject Christian from the hotel. When Christian walks back in, they beat him and tie him to a tree in the woods outside of the hotel. Christian unties himself and returns. Pia finds Linda's suicide note and gives it to Christian.
Christian gives the note to Helene and she reads it aloud in front of the party guests. In the note, Linda states that she is overwhelmed by trauma from Helge's abuse. Helge admits to his misdeeds and leaves the dining room. Christian has a hallucination of Linda, causing him to faint. As he awakes, he learns from Helene that Michael is missing. Michael, also drunk, calls Helge outside and beats him severely. The following morning, while the family and guests eat breakfast, Helge comes in and speaks to the group. He admits to his wrongdoing and declares his love for his children. Michael tells his father to leave the table.
Cast
Ulrich Thomsen as Christian Klingenfeldt-Hansen
Henning Moritzen as Helge, Christian's father
Thomas Bo Larsen as Michael, Christian's brother
Paprika Steen as Helene, Christian's sister
Birthe Neumann as Else, Christian's mother
Trine Dyrholm as Pia, the waiter who is close to Christian
Helle Dolleris [af; da] as Mette, Michael's wife
Therese Glahn [af; da] as Michelle, the waiter who Michael slept with a year ago
Klaus Bondam as Helmut von Sachs, the toastmaster
Bjarne Henriksen as Kim, the head chef and Christian's old friend
Gbatokai Dakinah as Gbatokai, Helene's American boyfriend
Lasse Lunderskov [af; da; de] as Christian's uncle
Lars Brygmann as Lars, the receptionist
Lene Laub Oksen [da] as Linda, Christian's dead twin sister
Linda Laursen [af; da] as Birthe, the woman who hits on Pia
John Boas as Christian's grandfather
Erna Boas as Christian's grandmother
Thomas Vinterberg as taxi driver
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