2005 · comedy · dark · faith
Adam's Apples
Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen1h 35m2005
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.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / dark, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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