The Celebration
Why this pick
A fellow Dogme 95 landmark, it turns handheld intimacy and an ensemble gathering into escalating social discomfort, with blunt performances and a similarly merciless interest in group behavior.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
A fellow Dogme 95 landmark, it turns handheld intimacy and an ensemble gathering into escalating social discomfort, with blunt performances and a similarly merciless interest in group behavior.
Why this pick
Its Dogme-style roughness, unpolished emotional exposure, and mismatched people forced into close quarters echo The Idiots’ volatile mix of provocation, tenderness, and awkward comedy.
Why this pick
Another Dogme experiment in which a stranded group adopts roles and rituals; its sparse, raw style lets performance, collective pressure, and uneasy absurdity do the work.
Why this pick
For the same aggressively intimate, destabilizing feeling: grainy handheld imagery, fractured behavior, and darkly comic discomfort make its family world feel painfully immediate.
Why this pick
A gentler Dogme counterpart, but its natural light, unvarnished performances, and lonely adults forming an accidental community retain the humane, vulnerable side beneath The Idiots’ provocation.
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01 / THE STORY
The group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the "inner idiot" in themselves.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Ped
Axel

High Class Lady
Man from Municipality
Guide at Factory

Karen's Sister - Britta
Susanne