text: 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 .
  
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  Thomas Vinterberg directed the movie , and his camerawork is edgy and grainy .