BLEEDER: Mads Mikkelsen Week at FOMO Cinema
Tuesday 7. July at 19:00 - 20:40
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
There are movie stars, there are character actors, and then there is Mads Mikkelsen. Over three decades he has moved effortlessly between Copenhagen gangsters, priests, teachers, cannibals, Vikings, alcoholics, spies, surgeons and at least one man who cooks human beings for a living.
He has worked with Nicolas Winding Refn, Thomas Vinterberg, Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen and some of the biggest directors in international cinema, balancing arthouse cinema with global blockbusters.
For one week, FOMO is tracing that journey across eleven films. We'll start in the criminal underworld of 1990s Copenhagen, move through the dark comedies that helped define modern Danish cinema, and finish with the performances that transformed Mikkelsen into one of the defining screen presences of his generation.
Some of these films are masterpieces. Some are cult oddities. Many are both. Welcome to MADSNESS at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
BLEEDER
Nicolas Winding Refn | 1999 | Denmark | 1h38m | Danish with English subtitles
Released three years after PUSHER but before Refn became internationally associated with stylised violence and neon noir, BLEEDER remains one of the most intimate films either Refn or Mikkelsen ever made.
Set in the same working-class Copenhagen that would define much of Refn's early career, the film follows two parallel stories. One concerns Leo, a quiet video store employee whose relationship slowly deteriorates into fear and violence. The other follows Lenny, an awkward and lonely film obsessive searching for human connection through cinema, friendship and increasingly uncomfortable conversations about love.
Mads Mikkelsen appears here in only his second feature film role as Lenny, but much of what would later define his screen presence is already visible. The physical stillness. The awkward charm. The sense that kindness and danger are somehow occupying the same body at the same time.
Refn would go on to make DRIVE, ONLY GOD FORGIVES and THE NEON DEMON. Mikkelsen would become an international star. BLEEDER captures both men before any of that happened. For anyone curious where one of Europe's great screen partnerships began, this is where to start.
FOOD AND DRINK POLICY: FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar opens 1 hour before the first screening of the day and closes at 02:00, serving a wide selection of beer, wine, cocktails, and non-alcoholic refreshments including coffee and tea, as well as fresh hot popcorn! Outside food is allowed in the bar but not in the cinema. No alcohol from outside allowed. All guests are invited to arrive early and stay late!
LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter Bazari Orbeliani via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left to Level 1. Signage on the door. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTMzMTA2Mjk0MDI5MjM1
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
