The Celebration is a Danish film, made by director Thomas Vinterberg, in 1998, which centres around the gathering of an upper class family for the 60th birthday celebrations of its patriarch, Helge Klingenfeldt-Hansen (Henning Moritzen) – soon after the mysterious death of his daughter, Linda. But what initially appears as a stuffy formal occasion begins…
Month: October 2008
Film Review: L’Age d’Or (1930)
This surrealist film, directed by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, made in 1930, continues to shock, repel, scandalize cinema goers for over seventy-five years now. When L’Age d’Or had its first public showing in 1930—and its only public screening until 1979—it caused a riot. The film premiered at Studio 28 in Paris on November…
FILM REVIEW: Családi Tüzfészek (Family Nest) (1979)
Family Nest is a Hungarian film, directed by Bela Tarr in 1979, which shows the domestic problems of Laci (László Horváth), a soldier who has just returned home, and his wife Irén (Laszlone Horvath), set among the backdrop of an increasingly lackadaisical bureaucratic system and troubles of getting a flat sanctioned from the government. He…