Adam's Apples

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.

This oddball story is more than a one-joke concept. Its characters are sometimes cruel, sometimes sweet, but always recognizably human.

Jensen is an accomplished screenwriter with a knack for developing people amid comic nonsense.

The movie is all surface, loudly clamoring for attention and then losing its voice.

Its screenplay attempts to blend outrageous black humor with biblical allegory in an ultimately unsuccessful fashion.

The path that Jensen plots is one full of the improbable and unlikely, but never the impossible.

Winner of 14 different awards, it comes from the gifted Anders Thomas Jensen, who excels in black comedy

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.

The actors play this darkly funny material as if they are in a deadly serious Shakespearean drama, highlighting the situation's many absurdities

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