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Michael, also drunk, calls Helge outside and beats him severely. Else later makes a toast where she makes insulting comments towards her children, and accuses Christian of having an overactive imagination. Further exacerbating the tensions of the day, Helene's black boyfriend Gbatokai shows up, causing the racist Michael to lead most of the partygoers in singing the racist Danish song " Jeg har set en rigtig negermand " to offend him.
Pia finds Linda's suicide note and gives it to Christian.
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It was the first Dogme 95 film, an artistic movement created by Danish directors Vinterberg and Lars von Trier. Christian has a hallucination of Linda, causing him to faint. However, Christian is spurred to further action by hotel chef Kim, a childhood friend who knows about the abuse. The following morning, the family and guests eat breakfast when Helge comes in and speaks to the group.
Another sibling, Linda, has recently taken her life at the hotel. The movement preferred simple and analog production values to allow for the highlighting of plot and performance. It was later revealed that the story was completely made up by the patient receiving mental care. Dogme films are governed by a manifesto that insists on specific production and narrative limitations such as banning any post-production sound editing , in part as a protest against the expensive Hollywood-style film-making.
He admits to his wrongdoing and declares his love for his children.
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Michael tells his father to leave the table. After an initial shocked silence, the party goes on as usual as guests decide to move past the moment in denial. Helge pulls Christian aside to engage in a baffled conversation about his accusations.
In the note, Linda states that she is overwhelmed by trauma from Helge's abuse. Helge admits to his misdeeds and leaves the dining room. Gathered together amongst a large party of family and friends are his wife Else, his sullen eldest son Christian, his boorish younger son Michael, and his well-traveled daughter Helene.
Helene finds Linda's suicide note , but hides it in a medicine bottle after becoming upset by the undisclosed contents. Michael fights with his wife, whom he had earlier abandoned on the roadside with their three children, and then has sex with her.
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He questions his motivations for slandering him, and Christian appears to recant his accusation. He later beats Michelle, a waitress of the hotel, after she pulls him aside to discuss that he had impregnated her in an affair. Vinterberg was told about it by the friend of a psychiatric nurse who claimed to have treated the young man. Vinterberg was inspired to write it with Mogens Rukov , based on a hoax broadcast by a Danish radio station.
As he awakes, he learns from Helene that Michael is missing. During the toast, he publicly accuses by making a joke over Helge of sexually abusing both him and his twin sister Linda as children.
Christian then continues his toast by accusing Helge of causing Linda's death through the trauma caused from the abuse. Festen is best known for being the first Dogme 95 film its full title in Denmark is Dogme 1 — Festen. Christian then accuses Else of knowing about the abuse yet not intervening. He listened to the radio programme and asked the scriptwriter Mogens Rukov to write a screenplay on the events, [1] as if it were the young man's own story.
Helge speaks to Christian alone and makes threatening offers to bring up his troubled personal history, including his impotence with women and Christian's perhaps- incestuous relationship with Linda. Some years after making the film, Vinterberg talked about its inspiration: a young man told the story on a radio show of the host Kjeld Koplev [ da ].
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With this, she asks him to apologize for his earlier statements and accusations. The film tells the story of a family gathering to celebrate their father's 60th birthday, juggling subjects of abuse, death, incest, suicide, and trauma. Christian gives the note to Helene and she reads it aloud in front of the party guests.
Festen was selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee. Christian unties himself and returns. At Helge's birthday dinner, Christian makes a toast to his father. Festen has earned positive reviews. When Christian walks back in, they beat him and tie him to a tree in the woods outside of the hotel. Michael and two other guests eject Christian from the hotel.
Helge, a respected businessman and family patriarch, is celebrating his 60th birthday at the family-run hotel.