#thomas vinterberg

[fox-is-online]

Recomendaciones de este otoño!!

- I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Escrita y dirigida por Charlie Kaufman

- Festen (The Celebration)

Escrita y dirigida por Thomas Vinterberg

- Synecdoche, New York

Escrita y dirigida por Charlie Kaufman

[fallenolympian]

Okay, so I did some digging and 10 days ago the local danish media reported that Thomas Vinterberg was working on a new feature film called Løgn (Lies), that received financing from the Danish Film Institute. It's being written with Anders Thomas Jensen (3 time nominee and 1 time Academy Award winner).

Maybe this is it...? Or it's another project altogether, who knows https://www.ekkofilm.dk/artikler/vinterberg-og-anders-thomas-jensen-brygger-pa-film/

[tomdayalandmedia]

Oh so Thomas (Holland) is working on another project with Thomas (Vinterberg)...👀

[scandinaviancinema]

ANOTHER ROUND (2020) dir. Thomas Vinterberg

[les-fleur]

Another Round (2020, dir. Thomas Vinterberg)

[gusvanscant]

'Submarino' (dir. by Thomas Vinterberg) [2010]

[addictivecontradiction]

Druk, 2020

[sloshed-cinema]

The Celebration [Festen] (1998)

What if “Arrested Development” was about the Palmer family from “Twin Peaks” and shot as if it were Evil Dead 2? From the very start, it’s clear this 60th birthday celebration is going to be anything but a party. The three surviving children of Helge are all flavors of dysfunctional. Pick your poison: the sullen and withdrawn Christian, the violent racist Michael, or Helene, the closest one to being some approximation of “normal?” Still reeling from the recent suicide of fourth child Linda, the dead woman still has one final bombshell to reveal. Dad’s an incestuous pedophiliac rapist! Now it’s time for cake! Siblings spar, apologies are offered and then rescinded, and each passing toast becomes more and more loaded. Thomas Vinterberg crafts a multilayered ring of Hell in this evening, where the only options for entertainment are family fights and shock reveals, horrendously racist songs that all too many gleefully join in on, and the doddering antics of the oldest generation, be it Gramps’ endlessly repeated anecdote or Gran’s warbled folk tune. The only unity to be found is in the collective excommunication of a family member, whether Christian for outing his father’s criminal behavior or eventually the patriarch himself. Michael may comport himself like a complete ass, but sometimes it takes an abrasive personality to breach the social contract and show someone the door in the name of the greater good.

Vinterberg heightens the awkwardness by saddling several out-group individuals with this moment of collective familial reckoning. Helena’s American boyfriend Gbatokai is subject to microaggresions (and worse) from the start; Else confuses him with another of Helena’s boyfriends, and Michael tries to kick him out of the party, insisting they don’t need jazz musicians. The music on order for the night instead is “Jeg har set en rigtig negermand,” a cruel mocking toast that emphasizes some of the inherent racism present. The toastmaster Helmut also finds himself out of his depth, a lone German in this Danish gathering finding himself needing to defuse tensions time and again.

While the Dogme 95 vow of chastity has long since been set aside, there appears to be some basic vocabulary established here. For one thing, the thing must be shot on the most busted digital camera possible, and must frequently be attached to a hyperactive dog bounding about the space. There is a freneticism to camera movement here which heightens the stress of the moment, a sense of strangeness to the placement of the camera—looking down from the ceiling, strapped to the side of a rushing car—which implies an unbridled freedom in how the narrative can be depicted. It has a sort of anti-formalism which rejects limitations to how film can be used to capture ideas. This is another Inland Empire type “restoration” from Janus/Criterion where it’s important not to clean it up too much, as the graininess of the footage only adds to the oppressive atmosphere overall.

THE RULES

PICK ONE

Select either 'FUNERAL' or 'BIRTHDAY' and sip when that word is spoken.

SIP

A type of relative (like father, brother, etc) is named.

Someone falls over.

Someone makes a toast.

BIG DRINK

A new dinner course starts.

Someone finishes a glass of wine in one go.