New on Blu-ray: THE CELEBRATION / FESTEN (1998) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: Thomas Vinterberg’s still-shocking breakthrough launched the Danish Dogme 95 movement and struck world cinema like a thunderbolt The Danish Dogme 95 movement that struck world cinema like a thunderbolt began with The Celebration, the international breakthrough by Thomas Vinterberg, a lacerating chamber drama that uses the economic and aesthetic freedoms of digital video to achieve annihilating emotional intensity. On a wealthy man’s sixtieth birthday, a sprawling group of family and friends convenes at his country estate for a celebration that soon spirals into bedlam, as bombshell revelations threaten to tear away the veneer of bourgeois respectability and expose the traumas roiling beneath. The dynamic handheld camera work, grainy natural lighting, cacophonous diegetic sound, and raw performance style that would become Dogme hallmarks enhance the shattering visceral impact of this caustic indictment of patriarchal failings, which swings between blackest comedy and bleakest tragedy as it turns the sick soul of a family inside out.

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DVD & Blu-ray: ANOTHER ROUND / DRUK (2020) Starring Mads Mikkelsen

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Product Description: Four friends, all teachers at various stages of middle age, are stuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at school or at home, they embark on an audacious experiment from an obscure philosopher: to see if a constant level of alcohol in their blood will help them find greater freedom and happiness. At first they each find a new- found zest, but as the gang pushes their experiment further, issues that have been simmering for years come to a head and the men are faced with a choice: reckon with their behavior or continue on the same course. Underscored by delicate and affecting camerawork, director Thomas Vinterberg's spry script, co-written with regular collaborator Tobias Lindholm, uses this bold premise to explore the euphoria and pain of an unbridled life. Playing a once brilliant but now world-weary shell of a man, the ever surprising Mads Mikkelsen delivers a fierce and touching performance.

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ANOTHER ROUND (2020) - Trailer, Clip, Images and Posters

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"Another Round", or "Druk" in Danish, is a drama directed by Thomas Vinterberg ("The Hunt", "Kursk") from a script co-written by Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm.

The film tells the story of four high school teachers and friends who decide to test a theory that their lives can be improved by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood. The cast features Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang, Maria Bonnevie and Susse Wold.

"Another Round" premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and was released on September 24, 2020 in Denmark, and on December 4, 2020 via Streaming.

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