On March 13, 1995, at a celebration of the centenary of cinema in Paris, Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg announced their intention to launch a new film movement. They distributed a manifesto and an accompanying Vow of Chastity, and didn’t take any questions. Most film movements—Italian neorealism, say, or new queer cinema—happen organically and are blurrily defined, getting a name as filmmakers, critics and audiences happen to notice features which seem to link certain films together. Not this one. Dogme 95 (Danish for, as you might have guessed, “dogma 95”) consists of exactly 35 films, each numbered and given a certificate.

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