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The Celebration

The Celebration

7.7/ 10

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1,241

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1998

Release Year

105 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.

Keywords

daughter
depression
infidelity
child abuse
suicide
parent child relationship
birthday
country house
twin sister
trauma
racism
family reunion
denial
lecture
death of sister
drunkenness
dinner party
angry
kids
child sexual abuse
dramatic
dogme 95
intense
depressing

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7.0avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

January 1, 2026

7
7/10

I have always loathed, and avoided, family gatherings though none of mine ever became quite so toxic as this one. It’s “Helge” (Henning Moritzen) who has reached sixty years old, and so has assembled his family and friends at a luxury hotel to celebrate. We can tell that we are in for a bumpy ride w

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