July 23, 2008
Although not Jensen's greatest film, Denmark has humour. It resembles of the most-light/most-contemporary "Delicatessen"
Aksel Erhardtsen, Bodil Jorgensen, Jakob Cedergren
Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens whi...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 17, 2005
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Flixster Reviews (314)
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November 7, 2007This is a huge surprise. I have to say that I believe this might be the first Danish film I've ever seen in my life. I'll be looking for more. A beautiful mix of dark comedy and the seriously elevating power of love. In the end, this is less a comedy than it is a moving portr...( read more)
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May 22, 2007Best foreign movie around. Even though it was in another language, I laughed the whole time. Sven Sveat!
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March 11, 2009I found myself laughing quite a bit, it's that nice dark humor. I bit gross in some parts, but still good.
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January 20, 2009A quirky black comedy, or prehaps just a jarred film studying a shade of the human condition. Everything goes wrong but goes right, and the the outcomes are decided upon out of fear. over all good, but quite different to the big hollywood movie machine that turns out heaps of mov...( read more)
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September 16, 2008A politically incorrect Danish cannibalism comedy that doesn't really work. 'Delicatessen' without the whimsy; 'Eating Raoul' without the wicked humor; 'Sweeney Todd' without the viscera and metaphor. Strange little movie, neither fish nor flesh, as it were. Borderline Dogme95 fi...( read more)
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January 21, 2005
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
January 14, 2005
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Neither funny nor outrageous nor horrifying nor conventionally affecting. full review
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