Italian for Beginners (Dogma #12)

Italiensk for Begyndere Danemark 2000 | Lone Scherfig | vostEN+DE | 111’ | 35mm | Cast : Anders W. Berthelsen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anette Støvelbæk

► Silberner Bär, Berlinale 2001

In a city suburb, a young minister arrives to take up duties at a local church. He is persuaded by his assistant to join an Italian night-school class and becomes the centre of a group of people to whom fate has dealt quite serious blows.

« The most nonconfrontational and thus accessible title in the Dogma lot to date, and will speak the international language of proletariat love to arthouse auds who go for such fare. » (Variety)

« Without abandoning the illusion of realism, Scherfig and her wonderful cast slyly transmute the quotidian into the magical. It’s like watching flowers bloom in a concrete garden. » (Newsweek)