There is much black humour and people getting hit with stuffed animals in this macabre comedy from the writer of In a Better WorldAnders Thomas Jensen is the Danish film-maker and screenwriter best known for his script collaborations with Susanne Bier on movies such as In a Better World,The Brothers and fancy Is All You Need – he also co-wrote Kristian Levring’s western The Salvation. Here is his latest credit as writer-director: a gamey, tangy and strange gothic horror comedy carried off in a deadpan macabre style. There is something distinctly nasty in the woodshed. Mads Mikkelsen and David Dencik star as Elias and Gabriel, and two middle-aged half-brothers with weird mannerisms and what can charitably be described as undiagnosed learning difficulties. From a videotaped message left to them by their late father,they discover that they are adopted, and are the progeny of an elderly geneticist living on a remote Danish island. They arrive to discover their other three half-siblings living in squalor amid the result of their biological father’s indoor-barnyard breeding experiments. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com