You 've seen this sort of picture People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets , and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine , but you should see the movie anyway because the director , Thomas Vinterberg , is a great , hypersensitive filmmaker whose edgy , grainy , caught-on-the-fly camerawork seems to make the very celluloid shiver with rage .
This is one of the best Thomas Vinterberg movies .