Italian for Beginners (Italiensk for begyndere) (2000)

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I've seen a handful of Dogme 95 movies and most (if not all) deal with rather weighty topics and are definitely not mainstream movies. 'Italian for Beginners' is listed as Dogme 12 in the list of Dogme movies. It's basically a gentle romantic comedy about a group of people who join an Italian language class in a Danish village. It is easily the most conventional movie I've seen from this group in ... read more

I remember it very well, in the mid-90’s, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg started the Dogme movement. Right from the start, I thought it was quite a fascinating concept and I tried to watch most of these movies when they were released in the movie theater at the time. Anyway, from all these experimental features, this one was maybe the most original one. Indeed, most of the Dogme features w... read more

Italian for Beginners, a Danish romantic comedy directed by Lone Scherfig, provides a soul-satisfying anatomy of the different shades of loneliness and the universal yearning for love and connection.