Director's Cuts  A Danish filmmaker gives up pretension in favor
of cannibal butchers  With all due respect to the inventive
barbecue kings who enlivened The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a pair
of deranged Danes called The Green Butchers would likely win the
cordon bleu for cannibal cuisine. Hannibal Lecter himself might
savor something called "Svend's Chicky-Wickies" -- not poultry
at all, of course, but filet of electrician, expertly cut from
the tender portion of the unfortunate fellow's leg and lovingly
marinated overnight before making its way to the display case in
the front of the shop. Predictably, the uninformed but ravenous
public clamors for more. Must taste like chicken.  Sound like
satire? It is -- or means to be. Relying on everything from
Jonathan Swift to the tacky sci-fi classic Soylent Green,
writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen here cooks up an elaborate,
sometimes tortured allegory about self-esteem, fame and striving
for success at any cost. He also suggests, we're chagrined to
report, that p