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Flickering Lights
Flickering Lights
7.4
/10
694 Ratings

FLICKERING LIGHTS

Blinkende lygter

Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen
Denmark, Sweden, 2000
Action, Comedy, Crime

Synopsis

Having stolen over 4 million kroner from a crime boss, four small-time gangster friends from Copenhagen are forced to hide out for weeks in an old, wrecked house in the Danish countryside. Slowly, the four realize that life isn’t so bad out in the woods, and they begin to rethink their career paths.

Synopsis

Having stolen over 4 million kroner from a crime boss, four small-time gangster friends from Copenhagen are forced to hide out for weeks in an old, wrecked house in the Danish countryside. Slowly, the four realize that life isn’t so bad out in the woods, and they begin to rethink their career paths.

Our take

A dark Danish comedy named after Tove Ditlevsen’s poem, Flickering Lights is Anders Thomas Jensen’s genre-bending debut. The first of his many collaborations with Mads Mikkelsen, its offbeat humor, escalating violence, and insolent focus on camaraderie over crime will have you hooked!