Books and Movies

 Hey Guys! In March 1993, a group of directors who were disgruntled by the distance cinema had from reality banded together to make films that went back to the roots of pure, simple, and plain visual storytelling. This was the Danish Dogme 95 movement. It was headed by a bunch of renowned filmmakers, most notorious of them being Lars von Trier ( Melancholia, The House That Jack Built ). This had elements of Truffaut's " Une Certaine Tendance du Cinema Francais " (A Certain Tendency in French Cinema), the article published in " Cahiers du Cinema " in 1964 that arguably kickstarted the French New Wave. With similar intentions, Trier set out to write a manifesto to make cinema a form of storytelling undilated by outside elements, to make it seem more authentic and true to life. He was joined by Thomas Vintenberg (whose newest film is the subject of discussion today). Together, they wrote the "Vows of Chastity", a set of rules that were designed to bring a...