2000 ‘Blinkende lygter’ Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen
Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.
Søren Pilmark Ulrich Thomsen Mads Mikkelsen Nikolaj Lie Kaas Sofie Gråbøl Iben Hjejle Frits Helmuth Ole Thestrup Peter Andersson Niels Anders Thorn Henning Jensen Solbjørg Højfeldt Jesper Asholt Helle Dolleris Bent Mejding Karen-Lise Mynster Helle Virkner Thomas Bo Larsen Tomas Villum Jensen Lars Kaalund Peter Reichhardt Morten Gundel Nicki Jensen Adam Brix David Munksgaard Laura Drasbæk Lars Nepper-Christensen Sebastian Jessen Andreas Andersen Show All…
Blinkende Lichter
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Mads & Anders Thomas Jensen > Mads & Vinterberg > Mads & NWR
All hail Denmark, the land of MikkelGod and delightfully bizarre films. Mads was wearing a white tank top almost the whole film, that shameless whore, I could barely follow the plot with this porn going on. Then he run butt naked into the sea and my brain melted. But then he shot a squirrel. First the cat gets shot in Adam's Apples, now a squirrel. And I laughed both times like a degenerate. Mads, you corrupt me. In so many ways.
He also harrassed and shot a cow and hunted a whole bunch of animals. Nothing here is vegeterian indeed.
sometimes family looks a little different. sometimes family looks like four hitmen who steal 4 million kroner from a greek diplomat and then decide to settle down and open up a seaside restaurant and name it after an emily dickinson poem.
Mit "Flickering Lights" schließe ich meine Werkschau der Filme, bei denen Anders Thomas Jensen Regie geführt hat, auch schon wieder aber. Leider!
"Flickering Lights" ist eine sehr gelungene Mischung aus Gangsterfilm, Komödie und Charakterdrama, das Jensen mit seinen bevorzugten Schauspielern auf Zelluloid gebannt hat.
Der Film ist bestimmt nichts für Zartbesaitete, obwohl das Ausmaß der Gewalt nicht allzu schlimm ist, gibt es doch ein paar unangenehme Szenen im Film, besonders für Tierliebhaber. Mit Eichhörnchen, Kühe und verschiedenen anderen Waldbewohnern wird hier auch schon mal kurzer Prozess gemacht. Wer also, so wie ich, auf pechschwarzen Humor und politische UNkorrektheit steht, wird mit "Flickering Lights" viel Spaß haben.
Trotz der vielen komischen Szenen im Film, hat Jensen auch eine Botschaft. Er zeigt…
It's not inaccurate to describe this as a Scandi Sonatine. Four low-level mobsters double-cross their boss and abscond for Barcelona with a suitcase of Euros, but they don't get further than an abandoned restaurant in rural France which, after a period of restless boredom, one of them takes a shine to, purchases, and decides to reopen, putting the lads to work in the kitchen and dining room. The various underlying issues of the foursome bubble up in a variety of more or less darkly comedic ways.
The English subtitler gets annoyingly creative, translating various Danish cultural references in addition to the dialogue. The poet Tove Ditlevsen, a line of whose work gives the eatery (and the film) its name, transforms…
this director always tries to make mads look ugly in all his movies well too bad for him because I am sick and think he’s sexy in every one
An offbeat, dark comedy about gangster pals who grew up together and decide to leave behind the gangster life! They're a motley crew of misfits and knuckleheads! If it weren't for bad luck they wouldn't have any luck at all!
Deliciously quirky and darkly wicked!
Features a fabu-licious cast, two of which I'm a huge fan of Mads Mikkelsen and Ulrich Thomsen!
Anders Thomas Jensen's first collaboration with actor Mads Mikkelsen is a decent venture into the world of Danish humour. It's about quirky characters doing nothing and being happy as hell, which is something I love to see in movies. It features an all-star cast as well: we have Mads Mikkelsen who loves guns and hunting (and mainly AK-47s), Ulrich Thomsen who loves coke, Nikolaj Lie Kaas who cries over poetry, Frits Helmuth who is a drunken doctor and cools his beers in self-dug holes in the ground instead the refrigerator, Ole Thestrup, a lonely hunter who would have always loved to shoot people but never had any reason for it so he stuck to animals and Soren Pilmark who wants out of the gangster lifestyle and have his own restaurant in the middle of the woods.
Great premise, isn't it?
It’s that schmaltzy 90s/early 2000s Hollywood sweet with an edge but Danish.
Ends kind of like Ratatouille but doesn’t feel as earned.
I don’t like when movies do flashbacks and feel the need to do some effect to signify it. Just cut to the past and allow the time jump to be felt in a hard cut, don’t do some big fade to white complete with wooshing sound please.
no homo just four dudes deciding to stop being criminals so they can live together and open up a restaurant in the woods...
Lise and Jonnie's What A Wonderful World 2015
I really didn’t know what to make of Flickering Lights as I watched it as my second feature on a plane ride home from a trade show. There were elements of The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, Millar’s Crossing, In Bruges, and The Man without a Past. There was something else, though, and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.
One might rightly describe a criminal and his crew stealing from his even more criminal boss a well-worn hat. Yet, there was something new, but somehow familiar about Flickering Lights. The loving opening makes you think that you’re going to be told a yarn about a group of war buddies, but immediately…
Welcome to the danish Gourmets
"Alfred: What the Hell are you doing? Are you shooting my Cows?
Arne: I'm sorry. I didn't know it was yours.
Alfred: You're gonna replace that Cow, I tell you that. What did you shoot it with?
Arne: Oh, just this Desert Eagle.50."
Jeder von uns geht doch gerne mal in's Wirtshaus und mampft ein Menü seiner Wahl, welches auch noch frisch aus der Region zubereitet wurde... doch habt ihr eigentlich jemals über die Geschichte hinter den gemütlichen 4 Wänden oder des deliziösen Lamm-Kotletts nachgedacht, welches ihr gerade so genüsslich in euch reinschaufelt?
Anders Thomas Jensen's symphatische Filmcrew weiht uns in das unglaubliche Geheimnis des 'Flickering Light' ein, dessen Küche nicht nur Wiener Schnitzel und…
