Trine Dyrholm is fantastic in this funny-sad drama about a mother whose mental illness has pushed her to the edge of her ...
Writer-director Mads Mengel’s film about a seaside christening disrupted by a previously shunned relative is shot in the spirit of Dogme 95 ...
The naming ceremony for the baby son of Karl (Simon Bennebjerg) and his wife Emilie (Mette Klakstein Wiberg) is a tasteful affair, held in a chic seaside hotel on the Danish coast, with a seasonally ...
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The emotional upheaval of a tightly-knit community has become Thomas Vinterberg's trademark as a film maker. He explored this theme with great success in 'Festen' and in 'Jagten', and now he does it ...
Festen is a powerful opera adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg's cult film, centered around a 60th birthday celebration hosted by wealthy hotel owner Helge. As the night unfolds, tensions rise when his ...
It’s now been 30 years since Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg launched the Dogme 95 movement, featuring a set of stripped-down filmmaking rules to put power back in the hands of directors. While ...
In Thomas Vinterberg’s series on Netflix, climate change forces a country to close, and everyone has to leave. By Mike Hale The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an ...
The early 1990’s were an invigorating time. All of the traditional values of the film industry were being challenged. My upstairs neighbour in our original office in Berwick Street London was Thomas ...
(Photo: Marc Brenner) Mark-Anthony Turnage is among the front rank of living British opera composers. With “Festen”, which opened at The Royal Opera last week, he now has five to his name, with a ...