Saturday, February 14, 2009

Flickering Lights

Denmark

Very black comedy. 

Four criminals steal a bundle from their even sleazier boss and on the way to Barcelona end up living in an old restaurant which they fix up and open. Lots of twists and false starts along the way and lots of violence, some of which was harrowing and some played for laughs.

Each man's backstory was shown, it turned out that all were traumatized in childhood so when they found each other at ten or so they bonded deeply. Or something like that. It was well acted, nice set design and a couple of fine supporting characters but the tone was too negative and the violence was too much for my taste.

One laugh, a couple of subliminal chuckles...not much to get for two hours investment. 

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