Synopsis
Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.
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Cast
- Mads MikkelsenElias
- Nikolaj Lie KaasGregor
- David DencikGabriel
- Nicolas BroJosef
- Søren MallingFranz
- Ole ThestrupFlemming
- Kirsten LehfeldtDoctor Abbot
- Bodil JørgensenEllen
- Lisbet DahlSusan
- Birthe NeumannInger Lis
Recommendations
- 83
The Film Stage
It’s Mikkelsen who steals the show playing so far against type that you wonder how it could be him. - 80
Screen Daily
The joy of Men & Chicken is the way the absurdist comedy can dissolve to expose some intriguing philosophical arguments. - 75
RogerEbert.com
What does all of this add up to? Damned if I know. But it's fun to see a film that plays by its own rules to such a degree that any comparison to anything else falls apart. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Even given the standards of off-the-rails cinematic family reunions, you'd have to look a while to find one as bizarre as Anders Thomas Jensen's Men & Chicken. - 70
Variety
In its own playful way, this tonally astounding, genre-confounding movie offers a variation on the famous chicken-and-egg debate, being a twisted inquiry into the characters’ origins and mankind’s own search for meaning. - 70
Los Angeles Times
In Jensen's uniquely wacky world, there's a genuine affection for his offbeat characters. - 63
Slant Magazine
An admirably bizarre and beautiful genre mixtape, but Anders Thomas Jensen's empathy for his characters gradually impedes his imagination. - 60
The New York Times
The movie’s grave commitment to its own quirkiness is admirable, I suppose. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to recommend it.
