Film

Italian for Beginners

Attendance optional. Passion required.

6.4

1h 58m

2000

“Attendance optional. Passion required.”

Synopsis

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.

Director

Lone Scherfig

Trailer

ComedyDramaRomance

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