You got to have a little faith in people. That's what Tracy said at the end of Manhattan (1979), and if you watch Flickering Lights long enough you'll understand why I'm referencing a New York comedy from the Seventies in a review of a Danish black comedy about criminals on the lam'. I don't want to spoil it. Just keep your ears open.
This starts and goes on in a fairly grim and chilly manner, but don't be put off because it's going somewhere sunny. Barcelona is the projected destination of four crooks who run off with a case full of money, but when their vehicle breaks down in the woods they need to hole-up somewhere a bit Blair Witchy from the look of it. Then, the movie goes from being a bit Shallow Gravey to being a bit runny gravy. You'll see. There's a lot of fuss about some sauce separating. That which is done with love won't fall apart.
Wow. Look at young Mads Mikkelsen and young Sofie Grabol. So perky, Grabol that is. Mads just looks mad. And there's Iben Hjelle, around the time she made High Fidelity with John Cusack. Has she been in anything else worth mentioning? Grabol, of course, went on to fame for The Killing, a tv series about a cop with a refined taste in pullovers. Peter Andersson is another recognisable face, if you saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and its sequels. Also Ole Thestrup, for anyone who watched the wonderful political drama Borgen.
It's a bit, as I said, Shallow Gravey, a bit Trainspottingy, and one youtuber reckons it's a bit like Withnail & I; but I guess it's fairer to say that it's its own special flavour of macabre comedy. Bad people can still be good friends, and there's nothing like loyalty to keep things growing.
Well, there you have it. Plenty of text and vague as you like. No masterpiece, it's too bitty for that, but immensely likeable. Like watching the best bits of all those other shows I mentioned above.
An offbeat gem.
This starts and goes on in a fairly grim and chilly manner, but don't be put off because it's going somewhere sunny. Barcelona is the projected destination of four crooks who run off with a case full of money, but when their vehicle breaks down in the woods they need to hole-up somewhere a bit Blair Witchy from the look of it. Then, the movie goes from being a bit Shallow Gravey to being a bit runny gravy. You'll see. There's a lot of fuss about some sauce separating. That which is done with love won't fall apart.
Wow. Look at young Mads Mikkelsen and young Sofie Grabol. So perky, Grabol that is. Mads just looks mad. And there's Iben Hjelle, around the time she made High Fidelity with John Cusack. Has she been in anything else worth mentioning? Grabol, of course, went on to fame for The Killing, a tv series about a cop with a refined taste in pullovers. Peter Andersson is another recognisable face, if you saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and its sequels. Also Ole Thestrup, for anyone who watched the wonderful political drama Borgen.
It's a bit, as I said, Shallow Gravey, a bit Trainspottingy, and one youtuber reckons it's a bit like Withnail & I; but I guess it's fairer to say that it's its own special flavour of macabre comedy. Bad people can still be good friends, and there's nothing like loyalty to keep things growing.
Well, there you have it. Plenty of text and vague as you like. No masterpiece, it's too bitty for that, but immensely likeable. Like watching the best bits of all those other shows I mentioned above.
An offbeat gem.