Italian for Beginners

A suburban Danish town’s most romantically challenged residents enroll in an Italian class more for the teacher than the language. They stumble through conjugations while their real homework involves messy affairs, parental disappointments, and one particularly confused paramedic. The film’s Dogme 95 trappings occasionally feel like a student project that forgot its own rules.

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Lone Scherfig directed Italian for Beginners in 2000. See Lone Scherfig's full filmography, where to start with Lone Scherfig, or where to go after you've seen everything by Lone Scherfig.

Italian for Beginners was released in 2000 (DA original-language production), with a runtime of 118 minutes.