On this month’s bite-sized episode, we zoom in on the spectral perspective of Thomas Vinterburg’s debut film, The Celebration (1998). We get into: Dogme 95, family gatherings as horror movies, the generative energy of stylistic constraints, dynamic chaos, ghostly POVs, and finding something in a film that’s a little bit in excess of what the film seems to think it’s doing.
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