Italian for Beginners (2002)

A group of lonely Danes sign up for an evening class in Italian, hoping the lessons might lead each of them towards romance.

Lone Scherfig's comedy-drama-romance follows a group of lonely Danes who enrol in an evening class in Italian, hoping it might lead them to love. As lessons progress, the students' entangled connections and family troubles come to the fore. The film was made under the strict aesthetic rules of the Dogme 95 movement, and features Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen and Peter Gantzler among its cast.