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List Price: $14.99 Our Price: $13.99 You Save: $1 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 2001 DVD Release : 15 October, 2002 |
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Italian for Beginners description Not your usual lighthearted romance, Lone Sherfig's heartwarming comedy warms the usually chilly Dogme 95 world of prickly eccentrics and damaged souls with a glowing sense of hope and passion. A belligerent restaurant manager, a repressed hotelier, a lonely hairdresser, and a clumsy, childlike bakery clerk are among the lonely thirtysomethings who escape the social disasters and comic chaos of their unfulfilled lives in an Italian-language evening course. It becomes a place to dream and to heal emotional wounds (and they have more than their fair share of scars). Sherfig manages to turn the familiar social landscape of films as The Celebration and The King Is Alive--fractured families, abusive parents, tragic pasts--into a backdrop for romantic comedy. If not exactly profound, Italian for Beginners remains a sweet, hopeful, and affirming tale of eccentrics who find friendship, family, and romance while learning the language of love. --Sean Axmaker |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Unprepared for Life |
| This movie answers the question: Why is the Scandinavian suicide rate so high? It's because they are unprepared to live. Bewildered and apathetic as [more or less] young and filled with hate and rage as they age, they are clearly unprepared for life. Perhaps this chilling indictment of their society by the makers was unintentional, but chilling it is.
That said, this is a barely interesting ramble thru the lives of a bunch of people with nothing to live for, and just as engrossing as you might think. I guess the makers wanted us to feel a bit more hopeful, but by the time they got the cast to Italy, the despair of these stunted lives had just become more elaborate, hardly more hopeful. I thought the script was quite poor, the acting [except for the defrocked priest, who appeared to be acting in an entirely different movie] was bland. |
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