Career
He received Oscar nominations in the live-action short category for his films Ernst & Lyset (1996) and Wolfgang (1997). In 2000 Anders Thomas Jensen for the first time directed a feature film: the action-comedy Flickering Lights, and since then directed The Green Butchers, Adam"s Apples and Men & Chicken."
"As there was the Lubitsch touch and the Wilder touch, we can now speak of the Jensen touch -- a twinge of pathos acknowledged quietly, relying on our sympathy for the characters" bizarre frailties.".