Adam's Apples
Adams æbler
Denmark, Germany
2005
94 Min
Color
2.35:1
Danish
Synopsis
Ivan is a priest in a rural church known for the apples that grow on a large tree in front. He’s odd: seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, in denial about personal facts, and convinced he’s at war with Satan. The rectory is a half-way house for recently paroled convicts. Adam arrives for 12 weeks, a large, tough neo-Nazi, first baffled by Ivan’s thick-headed optimism, then angry. He vows to break Ivan’s faith. Meanwhile, in exasperation at Ivan’s insistence, Adam sets a personal goal: to bake an apple cake. All goes awry for the tree: crows, worms, lightening. The Book of Job gives Adam perverse insight, and his hooligan mates provide the resolution’s spring. –IMDb
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Anders Thomas Jensen
Successful Danish screenwriter and film-maker, Anders Thomas Jensen, has written screenplays for most of the Danish movie blockbusters from the end of the 90’s onwards. Most recently he wrote the screenplay for action-comedy At World’s End, directed by Tomas Villum Jensen, and The New Tenants which won an Oscar for the Best Short Live Action Film at the Academy Awards in 2010.
Anders was one of three writers on historical biopic The Duchess (2008) starring Keira Knightley. He co-wrote Brothers (2009) starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey McGuire and penned the screenplay for popular Danish drama After The Wedding. Other writing credits include Mifune’s Last Song, In China They Eat Dogs, the Dogme film The King is Alive, Open Hearts, Stealing Rembrandt among many others.
Jensen won his first Oscar for his comedy short Election Night in 1998 which he co-directed with Tomas Villum… read more
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delphine dynamite
4Aug11
...........That's 'just plain rude'.......... .............Hitchcock must had a good laugh too!
Elif
2Dec10
Wonderfully weird! It's not everyday that you find yourself empathizing with a neo-nazi who appears to be the kindest and most sane person around. And I especially loved the very frequent occurance of the "what the...?" expression on Adam's face. I'm not sure whether I liked the ending though, it shouldn't have been a closed circuit, Adam should've moved on instead of becoming Ivan's sidekick. Still, very nice&dark.
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TIFF Report: Adam's Apples
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
As any regular reader of this site will know I am a big fan of Denmark’s Anders Thomas Jensen. The hugely prolific writer has been involved in most of the major Scandanavian films of the past decade, has
TIFF Report: Adam's Apples
By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
As any regular reader of this site will know I am a big fan of Denmark’s Anders Thomas Jensen. The hugely prolific writer has been involved in most of the major Scandanavian films of the past decade, has
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