The Celebration (Festen)

Two decades before his Oscar-winner Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg directed this acclained Palme d'Or-nominated party-gone-wrong drama.

A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech dislodges all the masks, which finally fall completely as the father-son conflict intensifies and the bewildered guests look on.

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