Thomas Vinterberg’s taboo-busting 1998 film Festen (The Celebration) centred around a 60th birthday party at which the respected head of household is gradually revealed as a monstrous child abuser.

The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse. By Alex Marshall Reporting from the Royal Opera House in London. Mark-Anthony ...

In Festen, a beloved patriarch, surrounded by his wife, his daughter, his two sons and a host of family and friends, is celebrating his 60th birthday at his country home. This promises to be a very ...

In Festen, a beloved patriarch, surrounded by his wife, his daughter, his two sons and a host of family and friends, is celebrating his 60th birthday at his country home. This promises to be a very ...

A bourgeois Danish family gather for patriarch Helge’s 60th birthday celebration only for dark revelations to unravel from the shadows. Eldest son Christian accuses his father of sexual abuse in the ...

This head-banging drama about a bunch of nobs who gather at a stately country pad for a 60th birthday was made under a strict set of rules called Dogme 95, drawn up by a group of four Danish directors ...

Ascetic aesthetic: 'It feels like a home movie gone terribly wrong,' says Chris Weitz of Festen, the first film made under the Dogme code of conduct Seven years ago, two Danish directors - Lars von ...

Danish film Festen inspires a new masterpiece at the Royal Opera House that packs family secrets, abuse and racism into a gripping 90 minutes with no interval. If you think child abuse, rape and ...

I was mesmerised by Festen, a compelling thriller of the serious sort. It faces up to incest, suggests what long-term damage the victims suffer and is inexorably possessed by dread. In the opening ...