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Italian for Beginners

Italiensk for begyndere (Italian for Beginners)

2000

Lone Scherfig

Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Peter Gantzler ...

6.7

5,947

Comedy. Drama. Romance 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A charming Danish comedy (...) I was surprised how much I enjoyed 'Italian for Beginners' (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Patrick Peters Empire	"A warm and witty Dogme rom-com that, like the characters to each other, grows on you (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"A charming view of language as a way to another’s heart (...) The warmest and most delicate of crowd pleasers (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Sweet-natured and likable to a fault, the film studiously avoids confronting the darker themes of death and religion that bubble up from its story"	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[It demonstrates] that the application of Dogma principles to material this light can work (...) [It] is buoyed by the sly comic edges that the likable cast members impart to their characters"	POS
United Kingdom	Laura Bushell BBC	"There's an intimate quality to the shaky, handheld camerawork, but where Scherfig triumphs is in her well-drawn characters (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It's an odd film, undemanding, diverting."	POS

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