Lone Scherfig's mellow relationship comedy "Italian for Beginners" is a warm charmer about chance and the rhythms of life among working-class thirtysomethings in a Copenhagen suburb. Slow to get in ...

Italian for Beginners, the sixth novel from chick lit author Kristin Harmel takes a trip into the past to gain self-discovery. Thirty-four-year-old accountant, Cat Connelly, has been stuck in a rut ...

The fifth Danish picture to adhere to the 1995 cinematic Vow Of Chastity is as contrived as any of the previous Dogme outings. Yet because it deals so warmly and wittily with the everyday lives of ...

”Italian for Beginners” is a cloying series of oh-so-tentative flirtations that feature more sparkly eye contact than you’d find at an Osmond family reunion. For every sad impotent man, it seems, ...

ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS is a funny, bitter-sweet Dogme film about six insecure, single and vulnerable people whose lives interweave one bleak Copenhagen winter when each signs up for an evening class in ...

The speed with which children learn languages amazes both parents and researchers. They very quickly learn new words and recognise grammatical rules which link these words in a sentence. It is a ...

The first words I learned in Italian were gamba di legno, or wooden leg, for which Benito Mussolini and Walt Disney are to blame: After the war, my mother, who was fluent in Italian, had been involved ...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: “Italian for Beginners” had its world premiere at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival. Following are excerpts from G. Allen Johnson’s review, first published by indieWIRE on Feb. 13, 2001.

"Something Happened" (season four, episode three; originally aired 7/9/2010) (Available on Hulu and Netflix) The thing about making light of a dark subject is that if you're going to do it, there ...

Currently with no less than 25 official movies made under the so-called 'vow of chastity' - natural light, non-professional actors, handheld photography and so on - you'd be forgiven for thinking ...