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- 2002
- R
- Buena Vista Home Entertainment
- 1 h 52 m
- 2002
- R
- Buena Vista Home Entertainment
- 1 h 52 m
Summary Follows the stories of six insecure singles whose lives interweave one dreary Copenhagen winter. (Miramax Films)
Directed By: Lone Scherfig
Written By: Maeve Binchy, Lone Scherfig
- 2002
- R
- Buena Vista Home Entertainment
- 1 h 52 m
- 2002
- R
- Buena Vista Home Entertainment
- 1 h 52 m
Italian for Beginners
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8.0
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Summary Follows the stories of six insecure singles whose lives interweave one dreary Copenhagen winter. (Miramax Films)
Directed By: Lone Scherfig
Written By: Maeve Binchy, Lone Scherfig
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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86% Positive
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11% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
77
86% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
11% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Lone Scherfig, the writer-director, has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar. Yes, soar.
Unlike Hollywood's starting point of hopelessly beautiful and yet inexplicably unentangled principal characters, Italian For Beginners'raw material is something of a more dirty-fingernail variety.
Italian for Beginners, on its own small scale, is a one-of-a-kind movie: a baggy-pants spiritual comedy.
A funny, relationship-driven ensemble piece that takes the chill out of the Danish winter with a snuggly blanket of humanism.
An engaging romantic comedy that would have been better if the audience wasn't constantly being distracted by mediocre video quality and jerky camera movements.
Will be of interest for anyone seeking unconventional romantic stories as well as those curious about the development of the Dogme movement.
None of this is any more fun as it sounds -- the cancer ward scenes are truly disturbing -- but to be fair, writer/director Lone Scherfeg (the first woman to make a Dogme 95 film) manages some black-humored laughs.
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Generally Favorable
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Production Company
Danmarks Radio (DR),
Det Danske Filminstitut,
Zentropa Entertainments
Release Date Jan 18, 2002
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating R
Tagline Asistencia Opcional. Pasión Requerida. (Attendance Optional. Passion Required)
Awards
Danish Film Awards (Robert)
• 3 Wins & 11 Nominations
Bodil Awards
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
