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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.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.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.
- Awards
- 21 wins & 22 nominations
Merete Voldstedlund
- Andreas' mother
- (scenes deleted)
Henning Jensen
- Leif
- (scenes deleted)
Steen Svare
- Sportsman
- (as Steen Svare Hansen)
- …
- Director
- Writers
- Maeve Binchy(uncredited)
- Lone Scherfig
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaIn May 2010 it was revealed that Zentropa Productions officially acknowledged plot similarities to Maeve Binchy's novel "Evening Class". Writer-director Lone Scherfig 'borrowed' part of her plot from the Irish novel without giving any credit to the original author. Binchy was not credited in the original release of the film as Zentropa had determined they were not in breach of copyright, but after Binchy's representatives approached them they paid a non-disclosed compensation and added a credit for her in later releases.
- GoofsWhen Karen turns the dial of the IV, she reduces the dose instead of increasing it.
- Quotes
Olympia's Father: That sounds disgusting.
- Alternate versionsThere are two different versions of the film with different editing and sequencing. The original version shown at the Berlin film Festival and in several european countries ran 118 minutes; theatrical version shown in the US ran 112 minutes.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Bodilfesten 2001 (2001)
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Thoroughly enjoyable and totally devoid of Hollywood-style contrivance
I had the pleasure of seeing Italiensk for begyndere in a pretty small, intimiate cinema, which set the audience up beautifully for this movie.
The characters really drive this story, rather than the film pushing the characters around. What results is a movie that takes its own time to say what it needs to say, and that allows us to gain insight on what really is a broad spectrum of very human, very diverse personalities.
Romantic comedies-dramas, by and large, are pretty hit-and-miss, though more miss than hit if they come from Hollywood. They're bogged down in clichés, saccarine melodrama and characters that don't at all behave like real people. Italiensk for begyndere avoids all that, giving us characters that could just as well be the person sitting three seats from you in the cinema, that's how human they are.
I didn't feel at all cheated with this film, and left the cinema feeling like I saw a film that speaks to people. Superb.
The characters really drive this story, rather than the film pushing the characters around. What results is a movie that takes its own time to say what it needs to say, and that allows us to gain insight on what really is a broad spectrum of very human, very diverse personalities.
Romantic comedies-dramas, by and large, are pretty hit-and-miss, though more miss than hit if they come from Hollywood. They're bogged down in clichés, saccarine melodrama and characters that don't at all behave like real people. Italiensk for begyndere avoids all that, giving us characters that could just as well be the person sitting three seats from you in the cinema, that's how human they are.
I didn't feel at all cheated with this film, and left the cinema feeling like I saw a film that speaks to people. Superb.
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- Also known as
- Yeni başlayanlar için İtalyanca
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- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,544,753
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $66,047
- Jan 21, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $16,350,876
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