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Italian for Beginners
2000 1h 52m R
Comedy
,
Drama
,
Romance
7.1
87%
79%
65%
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Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.
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Directed By
Lone Scherfig
Written By
Maeve Binchy
,
Lone Scherfig
Studio
Zentropa Entertainments
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Cast of Italian for Beginners
Peter Gantzler
Jørgen Mortensen
Ann Eleonora Jørgensen
Karen
Anders W. Berthelsen
Andreas
Anette Støvelbæk
Olympia
Lars Kaalund
Hal-Finn
Sara Indrio Jensen
Giulia
Karen-Lise Mynster
Real Estate Dealer
Rikke Wölck
Nurse
Bent Mejding
Reverend Wredmann
Elsebeth Steentoft
Woman in Church
Lene Tiemroth
Karen's Mother
Claus Gerving
Klaus Graversen
Jesper Christensen
Olympia's Father
Carlo Barsotti
Marcello
Alex Nyborg Madsen
Church Singer #1 / Sportsman #1
Steen Svare
Church Singer #2 / Sportsman #2
Susanne Oldenburg
Lady
Martin Brygmann
Evening School Teacher
Italian for Beginners Reviews
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
[Scherfig] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
Scherfig, who has had a successful career in TV, tackles more than she can handle.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Robert Denerstein
An engaging Danish movie that rises from the ashes of loneliness and despair to spread feelings of happiness across the screen.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The result is that rarest of things -- a heartwarming love story that bears not a trace of cheap feeling or false emotion.
Denver Post
Steven Rosen
There are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and unaffected (and gentle) way.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
In Italian for Beginners, Scherfig has failed at making her story and characters seem ordinary while succeeding at making a very ordinary film.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
[The characters] get more charming by the minute.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
It sends you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Will be of interest for anyone seeking unconventional romantic stories as well as those curious about the development of the Dogme movement.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Romantic, often comic but certainly for grownups.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Schefberg has the courage to make the story messily un-formulaic.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Despite the drawbacks of the Dogma approach, Italian for Beginners speaks to the universal subject of love in a way that will delight most viewers.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Without abandoning the illusion of realism, Scherfig and her wonderful cast slyly transmute the quotidian into the magical. It's like watching flowers bloom in a concrete garden.
Chicago Reader
Richard Porton
Scherfig manages to elicit excellent performances from a talented cast.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A rarity: a humane picture about modern romance among believable adults.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
The combination of lightness and strictness in this instance gives Italian for Beginners an amiable aimlessness that keeps it from seeming predictably formulaic.
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Romantic comedy and Dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows, but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A charming Danish comedy.
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Scherfig, the writer-director, has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar. Yes, soar.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Scherfig clearly has fondness for these characters, even as they stumble.
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