Flickering Lights(Blinkende lygter)

Name: Flickering Lights
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Denmark, Sweden · 2000
1h 49m
Director Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring Søren Pilmark, Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime

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.

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Jensen helms with assurance and maturity, with rapid but unhectic pacing, plenty of dark humor and deft action sequences that turn cliches from U.S. action-comedies into something very Danish.

L.A. Weekly by Chuck Wilson

A hit in Denmark, this impressive debut feature from writer-director Anders Thom as Jensen is decidedly offbeat, with Jensen contrasting moments of brutal violence with the emerging gentleness of Torkild and his friends.

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

As it stands, this movie seems to have conflicting desires: to endear itself to the audience and then repel it.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Anders Thomas Jensen's Flickering Lights may have been a huge hit in Denmark, but it doesn't travel well. A bleak male-bonding comedy that's a queasy blend of brutal humor and escalating sentimentality, it is overlong, heavy-handed, slow and unpersuasive.

Washington Post by Stephen Hunter

It's funny and violent and fast and, er, Danish.