Festen " review
Pit, LondonFor Romanian director Vlad Massaci, Thomas Vinterberg's 1998 film Festen is more than the tale of a family detonated by revelations of parental abuse: it's a metaphor for social amnesia, and the collective denial of political abuses that allows persecution to thrive. In his programme note, Massaci declares: "The Klingenfeldt-Hansen family is the very society we live in today. One that rejects dealing with …