Six quirky singles in a small town in Denmark attend a beginner's course in Italian looking to find heartfelt romance. Based on bestselling author Maeve Binchy's novel "Evening Class."
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Italian for Beginners. (Italiensk for begyndere.) Rated R. Runtime: 1 hour, 52 minutes. Norway, 2000. In Norwegian with English subtitles. Check out the trailer here!
The first Norwegian film directed by a woman, "Italian for Beginners" is part of the influential Scandinavian "Dogme" film movement which incorporates naturalistic camerawork, realistic settings and twisted humor.
"A beautifully constructed, multi-character piece, and one of the very finest romantic comedies of the past two decades...A refreshingly empathetic and optimistic film, Italian for Beginners works its way around to some surprising twists for all these fumbling romantics."—Filmcritic.com