FLICKERING LIGHTS: Mads Mikkelsen Week at FOMO Cinema

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

FLICKERING LIGHTS

Anders Thomas Jensen | 2000 | Denmark | 1h49m | Danish with English subtitles

FLICKERING LIGHTS marked the beginning of one of the great creative partnerships in modern Danish cinema. Over the next two decades, Anders Thomas Jensen and Mads Mikkelsen would go on to make THE GREEN BUTCHERS and MEN & CHICKEN together, helping define a distinctly Scandinavian strain of black comedy built on deadpan humour, criminal incompetence and deeply damaged men trying, and usually failing, to become better people.

The film opens with four small-time criminals who steal a small fortune and flee Copenhagen intending to disappear abroad. Instead, they end up stranded in a run-down farmhouse in the Danish countryside where, against all logic and instinct, they begin renovating the property and building something dangerously close to friendship.

Mads plays Arne, a volatile and deeply unpleasant gangster with a fascination for firearms and very little patience for human interaction. Around him is one of the great ensembles of Danish cinema, each actor somehow managing to make emotional dysfunction feel strangely endearing.

Funny, melancholy and unexpectedly moving, FLICKERING LIGHTS became a cult classic in Denmark and helped establish the template for much of the Scandinavian black comedy that followed.

If you've ever wondered how a film about gangsters renovating a farmhouse became one of Denmark's most beloved films, this is your chance to find out.

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