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To what extent does the Dogme 95 ‘movement’ challenge the conventional aesthetics of film narrative? A discussion in relation to Festen and Italian For Beginners.
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To what extent does the Dogme 95 'movement' challenge the conventional aesthetics of film narrative? A discussion in relation to Festen and Italian For Beginners. The earlier part of the 20th Century was, according to Widding (1998), the Golden Age of Danish Cinema. It was to be a short lived success and from then on Danish Cinema remained a marginal film country and saw a slow transition into modern film. In the later part of the 20th Century, during the 1970's and 1980's, it was youth films that were the most important part of film production. During the 1980's however, there were growing numbers of film companies and several art film-orientated directors became seriously established, achieving International status. One of these directors was Lars von Trier, and it is von Trier who is associated with the emergence of Dogme in the mid-1990s. Dogme was conceived in 1995 principally by Lars...
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