Back-shelf pick: Danish flick speaks the language of love
August 08, 2010 10:28 AM
The Gazette
“Italian for Beginners” (2000) — This charming Danish comedy proves that not every shaky-hand-held-camera flick has to be as gimmicky as “The Blair Witch Project” (which was clever in its way but has now been copied to death). Part of the Dogma avant-garde film movement of the late ’90s, “Italian for Beginners” uses the technique to create a sense of raw, non-Hollywood reality as it follows a group of strangers who take an Italian class in Copenhagen, then take a trip to Venice, some, of course, falling in love along the way.
Goes great with a bottle of red.
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