Cinema Review: Men & Chicken


Posted July 31, 2016 in Cinema Reviews

Men & Chicken

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen

Talent: David Dencik, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Nicolas Bro

Released: 15th July

 

Middle-aged brothers Gabriel (Dencik) and Elias (Mikkelsen) discover, by means of a video recording made shortly before his death, that the man they thought was their biological father in fact adopted them at an early age. They quickly set about making contact with their long-lost father, a renowned but reclusive Nobel-winning scientist living in a remote island community. But his address leads them to what appears to be an abandoned sanitarium in a remote island community, and a trio of maladjusted half-brothers who live by a system of perverse and antiquated rules, one of which being the total forbiddance of entering their father’s quarters.

This is a pitch-black comedy that revels in its grotesquerie: in absence of feminine company, the island brothers instead fuck chickens (“There’s plenty of room: eggs come out of there!”), while Mikkelsen’s Elias needs to retire to a secluded space to furiously masturbate immediately after contact with any woman. It’s essentially an x-rated Roald Dahl story, which is no bad thing, but by no means for the faint of heart.

Words: Oisín Murphy-Hall

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