Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: The Green Butchers/De Grønne Slagtere (2003) - Great performances in Jensen's hilarious morbid comedy

5/17/2020

The Green Butchers/De Grønne Slagtere (2003) - Great performances in Jensen's hilarious morbid comedy

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+ Best Comedy of the Year

Two of the most beloved stars of Danish cinema are going into a meat grinder on this wacky poster for Anders Thomas Jensen's The Green Butchers, which effectively conveys the film's grotesque humor

Svend convinces his joint-smoking butcher friend Bjarne to open their own butcher shop together. Bjarne meanwhile falls in love with local young woman Astrid, while Svend begins to make a signature chicken sausage for the enthusiastic customers. - Made from humans.

The Green Butchers is written and directed by great Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen (Flickering Lights/Blinkende Lygter (2000)).
The wacky story is infused with lots of sharp humor and kooky dialog by Jensen. Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Beast (2011)), Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale (2006)), - whose semi-bald hairpiece in the film is itself a source of great hilarity as inhabited by the wonderfully gifted actor, - Ole Thestrup (Men & Chicken/Mænd og Høns (2015)) and others give outstanding performances.
The Green Butchers is outrageously funny; it is a local favorite that's stands tall as a Danish counterpart to Alfred Hitchcock's hilarious dark comedy The Trouble with Harry (1955). It is a handsome production and probably one of the funniest Danish films ever made.

Related posts:

Anders Thomas Jensen: The Salvation (2014) - Classic western yarn meets Danish dynamite (co-writer)
Love Is All You Need/Den Skaldede Frisør (2012) - Bier strikes gold with Italy-set romcom (co-writer)
In a Better World/Hævnen (2010) - Bier's Big Moral Drama lives on its actors' performances (co-writer)
Sprængfarlig Bombe (2006) - The two Jensens' satire is unrefined but hilarious (writer)
Murk/Mørke (2005) or, Shutter Jutland (co-writer)

2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]

2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]

Open Hearts/Elsker Dig for Evigt (2002) - Bier's excruciating Dogme chamber drama (writer)

Watch a great scene from the film here with English subtitles; (regrettably the format has been cropped)

Cost: 18 mil. DKK, approximately 2.61 mil. $
Box office: Uncertain - but likely around 18 mil. DKK, approximately 2.61 mil. $
= Uncertain, but likely a huge flop (returned around 1 times its cost)
[The Green Butchers premiered 8 March (NatFilm Festival, Denmark) and runs 95 minutes. Shooting took place in Denmark. The film sold 261,726 tickets in production country Denmark, considered a local success but only netting the film around 17 mil. DKK. It was released in many other markets, but mainly at festivals and without the grosses getting recorded online: Only recorded is the tiny North-American release, which grossed 3k $. The film won 1/8 Robert awards (Danish Oscar). Jensen returned with Adam's Apples/Adams Æbler (2005). Mikkelsen returned in Torremolinos 73 (2003); Kaas in Rembrandt (2003); and Line Kruse (Mifune/Mifunes Sidste Sang (1999)) in Baby (2003). The Green Butchers is fresh at 63 % with a 6.26/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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5/17/2020

The Green Butchers/De Grønne Slagtere (2003) - Great performances in Jensen's hilarious morbid comedy

2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]

2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]

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