It’s A Plane! It’s A Flop! Superheroes, Science Fiction, And Action Lady And Gentleman, You Are Now Floating In The Floposphere Case File #46: It’s All About Love Originally Posted July 3, 2007 Watching Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95 breakout hit The Celebration, I experienced an intoxicating rush of discovery. I was excited about the film, but I was even more excited about Vinterberg films to come. If he could accomplish so much while adhering to the rigorous set of aesthetic strictures he helped create as one of the architects of the Dogme movement (a militantly naturalistic cinematic wave that made acolytes take a “vow of purity” and went from “bold new way of reinventing the language of cinema” to “bullshit PR stunt” in roughly 15 minutes), I could only imagine what he’d be capable of without the restrictions Dogme 95 imposed upon its filmmakers. After The Celebration, Vinterberg was inundated with scripts and offers from money people eager to get into the Thomas Vinterberg business, but nothing struck his fancy.
