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The Royal Opera’s Festen is too outlandish – where is the chastity?
The after-dinner revelation of incestuous child-rape is the centrepiece of Thomas Vinterberg’s cult film Festen. It’s a bold choice for the Royal Opera House mainstage treatment – or it ...
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In ‘Festen,’ a Nightmare Birthday Becomes an Opera
Based on Thomas Vinterberg’s cult Danish-language movie of the same name, “Festen” includes descriptions of child abuse and suicide. The opera’s 35-strong cast will fight, engage in ...
The Financial Times1mon
Festen review — the cult film gets a sharp, riotous opera treatment
If the name Klingefeldt rings a bell, it is because it comes from Thomas Vinterberg’s cult film Festen, which won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. It seems strange that nobody ...
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Festen at The Royal Opera review: gripping adaptation of a taboo-breaking film masterpiece
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.
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Festen review
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s collaboration with Lee Hall results in a significant new opera A foundation stone of the Dogme film tradition, the Danish movie Festen came out in 1998, followed in 2004 ...