Adam's Apples (2005) poster
2005 · comedy · dark · faith

Adam's Apples

Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen1h 35m2005
ElsewhereIMDb7.759kRT70%Metacritic51TMDB7.5794
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
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Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / dark, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.

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A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

Our read · Adam's Apples (2005) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · dark · faith entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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You want pitch-black Danish comedy where a neo-Nazi meets Job's priest.

ends upliftingyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 4/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou can't do subtitled Nordic bleak humor with Nazis and terminal illness.

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Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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