Flickering Lights (2001)

danish film

I like Danish films especially those that have been written Anders Thomas Jensen. This movie is a Danish Cohen Brothers film. I loved the story, loved the characters and very much loved the outcome. Really good shoot out too.
It is just kind of sick though, nevertheless pretty funny July 17, 2008

Great Film - Horrible Quality DVD Release

This is purely a technical review.

Be forewarned before you purchase this - Vanguard Video has really botched this release. It's 4:3 widescreen, low resolution, massive compression (the entire disc contains only 3.8gb of data). Worse, there's a "Special Features" option on the main menu - but just try to click it. Go ahead and try! It won't work. Why? Because they apparently decided to leave off the special features but *neglected to remove the option from the menu*. Certainly a trailer was all they were going to offer, and there was still more than enough room on the disk for that.

Oh, and the subtitles are burned directly onto the video. What you have here is a DVD version of the VHS master. And I thought Strand was the hands-down winner of DVD butchery. I can master a better DVD than this, and I don't get paid to do it. September 1, 2007

I love Arne

After first encountering Mads Mikkelsen as the breath-taking Tristian in "King Arthur" not more than a mere two months ago, I have prowled the internet in search of any film having the privilege of being graced by his presence. Having added "The Green Butchers", "Pusher", "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself", and "Shake It All About", to my formerly non-existent DVD collection April 22, 2006

Disappointing

Despite some fine acting, here's a failed attempt at black comedy. The Editorial Review is mistaken when it claims the main characters "turn their lives around." As people they do not--not that that would matter if the film worked. The film suffers from a schizophrenic quality: it's as if visitors from Goodfellas have taken up residence at a "kro" in a forest in Jutland (think: Joe Pesci eats herring). I have no idea where this "heart" that others have mentioned appears in the film. The main characters, depicted as permanently damaged goods, emphasized by some surreal childhood flashbacks, never seem to experience any major transformation or revelation. No scene of absolution or contrition ever occurs. Even scenes leading in the direction of change are soon thwarted by more violent behavior (it's late in the film when the main character punches an innocent, albeit annoying, pregnant woman in the nose). Want to see a great recent Danish film? Buy The Inheritance, also with the talented Ulrich Thomsen, this time in the lead. July 11, 2005

A fine danish pastry

Famed Danish writer Anders Thomas Jensen (Mifune, Open Hearts, King is Alive, In China They Eat Dogs) does a great job of mixing genres in his directorial debut. Part violent black comedy, part crime film, and partly an emotional buddy film about friendship. Cast includes such Danish mainstays as Ulrich Thomsen, Iben Hjejle, Soren Pilmark, Mads Mikkelsen and others. Should become a cult classic here. September 3, 2003

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