The strangest film of the year — hand’s down; no arguments
with this one — is Men & Chicken, the Danish-language import from
Oscar-winning filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen.
It will be a getting a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack release on Oct. 25 from
Drafthouse Films, with MVD Entertainment Group providing domestic sales and
distribution support.
The ARR is a leisurely 186 days and domestic box office
receipts from the film’s limited arthouse showcase were $30,127.
Gabriel (David Dencik) and Elias are (Mads Mikkelsen)
loveless brothers who discover that they, at their father’s death, are not full
brothers afterall, but half-brothers (apparently dear old dad got around). So much for that … brothers, half-brothers,
what does it matter if they can’t stand each other!
Ah, but it turns out that Gabriel and Elias have other
siblings that their father has neglected to inform either of them of. And they too are in Denmark.
Now if you are either Gabriel or Elias, and have your wits
about you, you are wise enough to let “sleeping Danish dogs lie.” But then we wouldn’t have much of a story,
would we?
The feuding brothers, and this where Jensen’s film goes off
into the realm of “strange,” go in search of their siblings (a trio of
DNA-challenged half-wits). What they
find takes Men & Chicken into the world of Fellini and David Lynch …
they, the trio, reside in an asylum of their own making where strict rules of
conduct are religiously adhered to!
Men & Chicken is presented in Danish with English
subtitles.
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