Scherfig and her wonderful cast slyly transmute the quotidian into the magical. It’s like watching flowers bloom in a concrete garden.
Italian for Beginners(Italiensk for begyndere)
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Denmark, Sweden · 2000
Rated R · 1h 35m
Director Lone Scherfig
Starring Peter Gantzler, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
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The lives of six strangers intersect in a beginner's Italian language course. They come together on bleak evenings from their respective bleak lives, and discover solace and opportunity in each others' company.
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The most nonconfrontational and thus accessible title in the Dogma lot to date, and will speak the international language of proletariat love to arthouse auds who go for such fare.
A funny, relationship-driven ensemble piece that takes the chill out of the Danish winter with a snuggly blanket of humanism.
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
It's the rare film, Dogma or otherwise, that keeps you smiling long after the lights come up.
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
This is a woman's work in the best sense -- empathetic, inferentially erotic and delicately intuitive, as well as fiercely intelligent.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
A delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a Copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them.
Has a generosity of spirit and a wonderfully upbeat ending that makes it a nice little antidote to a bleak season.
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Will be of interest for anyone seeking unconventional romantic stories as well as those curious about the development of the Dogme movement.
Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow
Italian for Beginners, on its own small scale, is a one-of-a-kind movie: a baggy-pants spiritual comedy.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
This is a movie that doesn't depend for its effects on star performers or stylized wish-fulfillment sexuality but on realism, sharp observation and honest humor.
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