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Adam's Apples

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Adam's Apples (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 33 Fresh: 23  Rotten:10 Average Rating: 6.2/10
 
Consensus: Alternatively funny and shocking. Good and evil collide with interesting results in Adam's Apples, a dark Biblical allegory that’s alternatively funny and shocking. more
 
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Synopsis:
Sentenced to community service at a small, countryside church, Adam, a middle-aged neo-Nazi, is warmly welcomed by the cheerful vicar, Ivan. Although Adam is crude, full of hostility, and clearly beyond redemption, Ivan encourages him to choose a goal that will occupy his time there. When... [More]
Sentenced to community service at a small, countryside church, Adam, a middle-aged neo-Nazi, is warmly welcomed by the cheerful vicar, Ivan. Although Adam is crude, full of hostility, and clearly beyond redemption, Ivan encourages him to choose a goal that will occupy his time there. When Adam dismissively replies that he will bake an apple pie, Ivan assigns him the task of nurturing the church's lone apple tree. If by the time this unassuming tree has been attacked by crows, infested with maggots, and struck by lighting, you are not reasonably certain it has become the battleground for a fiercely irreverent struggle between good and evil, then you have not had the pleasure of meeting an Anders Thomas Jensen film. With a supporting bunch of characters that includes an Arab immigrant who routinely robs gas stations and a chubby former tennis pro and sex addict, this glib parable of religion and human nature plays out with wit and sophistication. Into Adam and Ivan (played with deadpan perfection by Ulrich Thomsen and Mads Mikkelsen), Jensen deposits competing philosophies. Ivan, whose absurd philosophical optimism would have Voltaire falling out of his pew, interprets events as the devil testing people. Adam shakes his unflappable faith by suggesting that evil simply doesn't exist. Adam's Apples is a wickedly dark comedy by one of cinema's most exciting directors. Following its hugely successful theatrical release in Denmark in April 2005, Adam's Apples received its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. Since Cannes, the picture has played at festivals around the world, from Toronto and Sundance to Sydney and Seattle, picking up many awards along the way, including 3 Danish Academy Awards, Best Film and Best Actor honors, and numerous Audience Awards. Adam's Apples will open exclusively at the Clearview Chelsea in New York on March 16, and this will be followed by exclusive engagements in Los Angeles and Boston on April 13th, and San Francisco on May 11th, with additional cities following. -- © Outsider Pictures [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Nicolaj Kaas, Ali Kazim, Paprika Steen, Ulrich Thomsen, Ole Thestrup

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Mie Andreasen, Tivi Magnusson
Screenwriter: Anders Thomas Jensen
Composer: Jeppe Kaas

DVD Info

Release:

Aug 1, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case -
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Unspecified - Danish
  • Subtitled - English

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A film that asks us to have a pretty high tolerance of easy stereotypes and most of its comedy comes because you're not sure what else to do but laugh. When the ironic reversal kicks in, the film turns semi-serious and gets, if anything, a little boring.

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05/08/08 04:49 PM
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
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The actors play this darkly funny material as if they are in a deadly serious Shakespearean drama, highlighting the situation's many absurdities

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02/05/08 08:25 AM
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide
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Horis na dokimazei Dogma-tika tis antohes soy, den einai liges oi fores poy tis apsifa paizontas me to rythmo, eno i halari ploki einai profanes oti den endiaferetai kai idiaitera na soy dosei heroylia na piasteis

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10/14/07 04:41 AM
Joseph Proimakis
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06/20/07 03:15 AM
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06/16/07 03:51 AM
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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This Danish comedy, like most of that country's dramas, is dark, dark, dark. The film's humor offers an odd blend of subversively sly narrative mixed with bursts of sudden, sharp violence and goofy slapstick.

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06/01/07 02:33 PM
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
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This oddball story is more than a one-joke concept. Its characters are sometimes cruel, sometimes sweet, but always recognizably human.

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05/11/07 03:15 PM
G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
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04/14/07 03:47 AM
Los Angeles Daily News
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Jensen is an accomplished screenwriter with a knack for developing people amid comic nonsense.

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04/13/07 06:43 PM
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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The movie is all surface, loudly clamoring for attention and then losing its voice.

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04/12/07 06:27 PM
Sam Adams
Los Angeles Times
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Some will see this as a movie about how we’re all God’s children. I saw only the misanthropic fulminations of Jensen’s runaway ego.

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04/12/07 11:28 AM
Scott Foundas
L.A. Weekly
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For most of its length it's wonderfully wicked -- Jensen actually forces us to sympathize with the neo-Nazi's attitude toward the minister -- but the ending unfortunately mitigates the nastiness ...

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04/12/07 03:21 AM
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
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Strong direction, solid acting, and a script as crisp and juicy as freshly picked apples. A solid "A" film.

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04/11/07 10:54 AM
Ross Anthony
Hollywood Report Card
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Its screenplay attempts to blend outrageous black humor with biblical allegory in an ultimately unsuccessful fashion.

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04/10/07 03:15 AM
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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Director Jensen (who co-scripted After the Wedding) breaks away from Dogme to make a more stylized film, using a controlled surface that disarms us with surreal happenings and well-executed absurdity.

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04/01/07 03:15 PM
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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Deliciously profane, dark and somber, Denmark's Adam's Apples is fiendishly ripe for the picking.

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03/28/07 03:40 PM
Frank Ochieng
TheWorldJournal.com
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Pushes the boundaries of weirdness, yet manages to be a moving look into faith and redemption.

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03/22/07 06:10 AM
Lewis Beale
Film Journal International
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The path that Jensen plots is one full of the improbable and unlikely, but never the impossible.

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03/17/07 04:49 AM
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine
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Adam’s Apples strives for black comedy, but winds up being neither funny nor spiritually enlightening.

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03/17/07 04:49 AM
Tom Beer
Time Out New York
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Smart-aleck comedy and spirituality aren't incompatible, but in Adam's Apples they cancel each other out.

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03/16/07 02:48 PM
Matt Zoller Seitz
New York Times
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Brilliant movie!
by: legolas777 3/16/07


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ADAM'S APPLES gets the nod from Denmark for Oscar's Best Foreign Film category ...
by: REEL_REVIEWER 11/5/05


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ADAM'S APPLES gets the nod from Denmark for Oscar's Best Foreign Film category ...
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ADAM'S APPLES gets the nod from Denmark for Oscar's Best Foreign Film category ...
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ADAM'S APPLES gets the nod from Denmark for Oscar's Best Foreign Film category ...
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