If you’ve loved a Danish film in the past 20 years, there’s a good chance it was written by Anders Thomas Jensen. The wildly prolific Danish screenwriter has been a co-author with Susanne Bier — on the Oscar-winning In a Better World (2010), as well as Brothers (2004) and After the Wedding (2006), both of which got U.S. remakes) — Nicolaj Arcel ( The Promised Land from 2023) and Kristian Levring (2000’s The King is Alive ), while still regularly churning out darkly comic gems as a writer-director.

He started with 2000’s Flickering Lights , where four inept crooks hole up in the country and accidentally open a restaurant. The Green Butchers (2003) went darker, with Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas discovering human flesh is a best-seller — Hannibal with slapstick

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