THE GREEN BUTCHERS (DE GRONNE SLAGTERE) International Feature Competition

THE GREEN BUTCHERS is a remarkable sophomore feature debut from director Anders Thomas Jensen (FLICKERING LIGHTS). He turns his attention to the morbid and a musing in this story of two friends who open a butcher shop. Featuring strong characters and beautiful cinematography, Jensen creates a stunning buddy film that is dripping with intelligence.

Bjorne and Svend are pals. Svend has great ambition driven by an equally great inferiority complex, while Bjorne hardly cares about anything at all apart from Astrid, his girlfriend. Starting their own butcher shop enables them to escape from their vicious boss, but the shop doesn’t do well until a bizarre coincidence leads Svend to concoct a new dish for the organic butcher shop and business takes off. Grisly and hysterical, taking elements of Sweeney Todd and Little Shop of Horrors, THE GREEN BUTCHERS pushes these much further.

Directed by a young filmmaker with great potential, Jensen-the screenwriter of key Dogme films including MIFUNE and OPEN HEARTS-has created a wickedly funny and suspenseful film.