2000 · comedy · crime · drama
Flickering Lights
Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen1h 49m2000
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.
Our read: Flickering Lights (2000) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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