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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
The same deadpan Danish grotesquerie turns damaged outsiders and appalling situations into an oddly humane, escalating fable, with Mads Mikkelsen again navigating pitch-black comic discomfort.
02
Why this pick
Its criminally inept friends, dry dialogue, rural isolation and sudden tenderness closely match the blend of absurd cruelty and wounded male camaraderie that powers The Green Butchers.
03
Why this pick
Another Jensen ensemble of deeply dysfunctional men, played with straight-faced absurdity, finds bleak comedy in trauma, loyalty and escalating bad decisions without abandoning emotional warmth.
04
Why this pick
It shares Jensen’s talent for making grief, violent mishaps and bizarre misfits collide in precisely timed deadpan comedy, while Mikkelsen anchors the madness with real emotional weight.
05
Why this pick
For the film’s taste for morbid comedy and social awkwardness, this offers even drier Scandinavian absurdism: pale, meticulously composed vignettes where the bleak and ridiculous coexist.
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01 / THE STORY
Svend is barbecuing and his fiancée, Tina, is bothering him about the food. Bjarne arrives and is introduced to one of Tina's co-workers, Beate. Bjarne does not take to Beate's flirtation and kicks her under the table until she leaves crying. The next day, as Holger tells a customer a story about sausages, Svend complains to Bjarne that they could open a better butcher shop. Holger insults them and tells Svend that his marinade is terrible. Soon thereafter, Svend meets with a realtor, "House Hans", and Bjarne at a closed butcher shop, and decides to purchase it and open his own shop. Bjarne visits the sanatorium where his brain dead brother Eigil is being kept alive on machines, and tells Nurse Juhl to take him off life support because he needs the money he inherited. Svend and Bjarne discuss hiring an electrician to fix the lights in the meat freezer, and business cards. Bjarne then visits the cemetery where his parents and wife are buried. Astrid introduces herself and Bjarne invites her to the opening of his shop.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Svend
Bjarne / Eigil
Astrid
Hus Hans
Juhl
Beate
Håndværker
Ingrid Grith
