20 Feb 2015

CLASSIC DOGMA


Lars von Trier as a director is unwatchable, but his ”Dogma 95” movement gave us some really interesting Danish flicks. Those movies may not be good in a classical manner, but they sure aren’t boring.

Story about an unorthodox birthday celebration is a classical „dogmatic” indie motion picture. Camera is shaking all the way through, lighting is natural and overall resources are low budgetary. All the significant Danish actors/actresses of the past decade are there and they are have decent roles.

Story has a superb idea, but somehow manages to wander off during the course of action. This is surely also due to social norms of the Scandinavian countries that tend to differ significantly from the rest of Europe and USA.

„Bizarre” is the word for this one, but maybe just a bit too much.


FESTEN – 5/10

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