Blinkende lygter (2000)

	Directed by: Anders Thomas Jensen	INTERNATIONAL TITLE Flickering lights NORWEGIAN TITLE Blinkende lys COUNTRY Denmark GENRE Black comedy/Crime RUNNING TIME 109 minutes
	Produced by: Kim Magnusson Tivi Magnusson
	Written by: Anders Thomas Jensen

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Torkild	Søren Pilmark	½
Peter	Ulrich Thomsen
Arne	Mads Mikkelsen
Stefan	Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Hanne	Sofie Gråbøl	½
Therese	Iben Hjejle	-
Alfred	Ole Thestrup
Carl	Frits Helmuth	-
Færingen	Peter Andersson
William	Niels Anders Thorn	-
Jens	Thomas Bo Larsen	-

Review

Anders Thomas Jensen was still honing his craft with Blinkende lygter, his first feature film in the director's chair, following three remarkably successful short films, including the Oscar-winning Valgaften in 1998. A fairly intricate crime story in typical Jensensque mould lays the basis for this foray into guns, heists, and traumatic childhoods, and it's all simultaneously both quite enjoyable and a little too simplistic. Jensen had not quite perfected his tone yet, though he certainly demonstrated his ability to see through people and write witty dialogue. There are plenty of familiar faces among the cast, not least a young Mads Mikkelsen in a delightful role as the trigger-happy Arne.