Adam's Apples

Official Selection - Sundance, Toronto, Seattle and San Francisco Film Festivals. In Danish with English subtitles.

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Customer Reviews:

• Insanely great film!: I loved this movie! It left me dumbstruck with laughter and tears. Amazing acting, insanely dark comedy with light at the end of the tunnel! Who is crazy in this story? The reverend or everyone else? You can't be sure, but the answer comes by the end. The incomparable Mads Mikkelsen is amazing, and Ulrich Thomsen has to have the best facial reactions to what's going on around him I've ever seen. It's amazing. Others have done a great job describing the film, I'll just add my 2 cents that you should not miss this one!
• A Most Wonderful and Unexpected Find : Adams Apples is the blackest comedy that I have seen to date. I took a chance on this film not really knowing much about it, expect that is starred Mads Mikkelsen (he is an amazing actor) and that was enough for me.In my opinion he steals the whole movie. This movie is a great find and it really does make you think about good and evil, but in a totally unexpected way.One of the main characters, Ivan, only sees good in everything no matter how screwed up his life is and refuses to see it as anything but perfect becasue God loves him. The other main character,Adam, sees himself as the embodiment of evil and proclaims himself so and sets out to show Ivan that in fact God does not love him and that is why his life is as totally messed up as it is. What follows is the funniest jet black comedy, that keeps on getting blacker and funnier through out some crazy twists and turns. Though do keep in mind this movie is not exactly what we Americans would term politically corret, and that is a very good thing indeed.A movie well worth the subtitles.
• Outstanding!: It's unfortunate that every preacher/minister is portrayed a certain way in the media because of the limited thinking and exposure of the writers of such characters, but I have to say this movie is LOL funny and very well-written and has to be seen for the entertainment value alone.
  
  The acting is OUTSTANDING! Another example of non-American actors who are more concerned with their art and craft as opposed to their image. It's simply amazing how this same group of actors can interchangeably portray good, evil, victim, victimizer with such humor and conviction.
  
  Most importantly, "good" wins in the war over "evil" with "providence" as it's general. Though surprisingly violent at times, I HIGHLY recommend it and it'll be the first foreign movie I'll refer to others out of my collection!
• Religion for Agnostics: I first saw Adam's Apples on cable and knew I had to buy it as soon as it was available in the American market. Although it has too many f*** words for many of those who claim to be religious, this is as close to a religious experience as I have had for many years. In a way, it's predictable -- vicious Danish skin-head (Adam) is sent to finish his prison sentence doing public service under the tutelage of a rural pastor whose other charges include a former tennis player turned alcoholic and thief, and a terrorist who still goes around holding up service stations. This is very predictable because we know the skin-head is likely to undergo some kind of redemption. The beauty of this black comedy is in the How. The pastor is either the most insane fellow to wear the cloth or the holiest. Totally in denial, the pastor's sufferings -- abuse during childhood, suicided wife, profoundly disabled son and brain tumor -- are fully comparable to Job's. Indeed, when the skin-head finally reads Job -- the copy the pastor has given him keeps falling off the chest and opening to Job -- the result leads to a dramatic confrontation with the parson. Bent on destroying the crazy parson, Adam nearly achieves his goal of killing a man who seems totally out of touch with reality, and at the same time, holy. One dark-humored incident follows another. I found this movie to be a grabber. It stayed with me long after the closing credits. In our secular era, is it possible that salvation lies only in profound denial and near-insanity? This one is a keeper. Viewers who have a shallow theology should keep away from it -- not only because of the coarse language but also because of its dark humor and unusual moraltone.
  
  Main negatives for me -- the translation could have been better.
• Awesome!: I stumbled upon this movie on IFC one night and cannot believe I never heard of it before. I'm buying it for my collection and to share with friends. Loved it.