It's already been thirty years since two Danish filmmakers signed a manifesto, expressing a desire for chastity in filmmaking. The rejection of artifice and the search for authenticity were its main elements, quickly mocked by the filmmakers themselves, in a single shot or a new film that contradicted their tenets. Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg left their mark on their era and on a generation of new filmmakers. But what do these films tell us today, given that they were such a departure from the mainstream of their time?
Winner of the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize, 1999 Berlin International Film Festival
Kresten learns of his father's death and travels to the ruined family farm. With a highly suspicious wife, a nutty brother in his garden, old enemies in the farmyard, and a gorgeous woman in his bedroom, Kresten's problems begin for real...
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen is a Danish film director, musician, and songwriter. He is one of the founders and practitioners of the avant-garde project Dogme95, for creating films based on reality, without artificial technology or techniques. He made his directional debut in 1978 with Wanna See My Beautiful Navel?, and made many films before his international breakthrough, the third film of the Dogme95 movement, Mifune (1999). The film won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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