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Italian for Beginners
MEANRANK
73/100
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 87. Critics average 82, everyone else 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.
Details
- Director
- Lone Scherfig
- Writer
- Lone Scherfig
- Studio
- Zentropa Entertainments, DR
- Released
- 7 December 2000
- Country
- Denmark
- Language
- Danish
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Budget
- $1.0M
- Box office
- $16.4M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 5 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| International Submission to the Academy Awards 2002 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Denmark | Nominee |
| 14th European Film Awards 2001 | Best Film | Zentropa | Nominee |
| 14th European Film Awards 2001 | Best Film | Lone Scherfig | Nominee |
| 14th European Film Awards 2001 | Best Film | DR | Nominee |
| 14th European Film Awards 2001 | Best Director | Lone Scherfig | Nominee |
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5 awards — Italian for Beginners
×| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Denmark | Nominee |
| Best Director | Lone Scherfig | Nominee |
| Best Film | Zentropa | Nominee |
| Best Film | Lone Scherfig | Nominee |
| Best Film | DR | Nominee |