Drama and comedy in a small Danish town. That's "Italian for Beginners" in 10 words or less. This Danish film has all of the charm, wit and verve that a foreign-language film needs to succeed in the U ...

Lone Scherfig's mellow relationship comedy "Italian for Beginners" is a warm charmer about chance and the rhythms of life among working-class thirtysomethings in a Copenhagen suburb. Slow to get in ...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: “Italian for Beginners” had its world premiere at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival. Following are excerpts from G. Allen Johnson’s review, first published by indieWIRE on Feb. 13, 2001.

lthough movies at their best are a shared experience, I just had a fine time by myself, in a small screening room on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, watching a captivating romantic comedy from ...

SheKnows Chick Lit was lucky enough to sit down with Italian for Beginners author Kristin Harmel. Harmel shares her insights on her sixth novel, writing, Chubby Checker and reveals her take on the ...

When the Dogme 95 movement was unveiled with Thomas Vinterberg's superb The Celebration, the Danish collective's schoolmarmish tenets—use only handheld cameras, real locations, natural light, ...

(indieWIRE/02.13.01) — Oh, those pesky Dogma auteurs. Here they had us thinking that they were out to reinvent cinema, when really all they wanted to make was genre films. Sales Out of the 2025 Fall ...

This is a Dogma 95 film, adhering to the code of stripped-down filmmaking originally advocated by Danish director Lars von Trier and a few of his equally ambitious peers. This means that the color ...

To the already overcrowded list of year-end disappointments bringing 2009 to a sorry close, you can add Nine. With a legendary Broadway score; director Rob Marshall (Chicago) hoping to repeat his ...

Italian for Beginners, the sixth novel from chick lit author Kristin Harmel takes a trip into the past to gain self-discovery. Thirty-four-year-old accountant, Cat Connelly, has been stuck in a rut ...

We are a family of many languages, of, sometimes, our own invented language. Of English, of Italian, of Portuguese, and of whoever happens to be visiting at the time (German, Arabic, French, Spanish).