2000 · comedy · romance · dogme
Italian for Beginners
Directed by Lone Scherfig1h 58m2000
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. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.
Our read: Italian for Beginners (2000) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · romance · dogme entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- intimate
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