Well Deserved Praise

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Blistering performances.

As some of the synopsis/summaries say, this is indeed a wickedly dark comedy. What it also is, is a beautiful feel-good story about faith. No, no, no. Don't get me wrong. There's no evangelism or no preaching involved here. It's just that the movie makes you think while you are watching it and even after you are done with it. A few plot-lines may require a leap of faith and most audiences will be fine with that. I highly recommend this as a watch if you don't mind the subtitles.

*CORRECTION* This film alone makes me proud of being a Dane. It is a film some viewers may never be able to fully appreciate unless they speak danish fluently. But if you enjoyed "After the Wedding" and enjoyed Mads Mikkelsen's performance just as much as I did, Adam's Apples is a movie you must watch. The black humour and emotional depth in this film is nothing short of phenomenal. It has the black humour of Pulp Fiction, and the emotional depth of The Shawshank Redemption. This might sound like a stupid idea, and I've seen films that screw it up, but Adam's Apples pulls it off. Although it's underlying themes are biblical, there are actually a lot of biblical undertones, the film doesn't force you to have any kind of religion; you can watch the movie just for the sake of the humour, skillful direction, acting, writing and emotional depth. But it's fun analyzing this film, comparing the characters to biblical characters (even though I'm an atheist).This is a true danish masterpiece - Moose finds this film worthy of a 10.

It is a simple but effective film. In spite of the fact that it is a rewriting of the Book of Job, the film conveys interesting questions. We totally have to forget about who is torturing the poor minister, God or Satan. That's not the question. The question is that his attitude is determined by what he believes. He believes he is being tortured by the devil and that is enough to justify the final miracle of the end of his cancer with a single gunshot. What is important is that, no matter what he believes, he follows a road of truthfulness and he brings comfort to extreme cases of a-social people. The apple tree then becomes a cross between the Book of Genesis in which the apple tree is the tree of knowledge and wisdom but absolutely out of reach due to one of God's ukases and that Book of Job I was citing before. The newcomer being called Adam the allusion is obvious. That tree is God's tree. Then all the attacks he suffers can only come from the snake, Satan, the devil. The point is that the plagues that tree suffers are quite reminiscent of the plagues of Egypt. That's where we meet with Job. God is not only planning the future ahead but he is also testing his servants by torturing them and the plagues come from God and the silly mortals around that tree have to make penance because they are punished by God and tested by God and they have to go away or keep their faith. And they just do so. Adam will make a small apple pie with the last scavenged apple of the tree and he will share that apple pie with the minister Ivan, a direct allusion that has to be designed so to Adam and Eve, or here Adam and Ivan. But after that episode they are not rejected by the parish, they can come back to their little piece of Christian paradise in a world of squalor, the two of them and yet they won't make many children but they will welcome the lost errant children of god. And guess what: they welcome two men together coming from some prison, Abel and Cain of course, and the world can go on turning. Bad of course, but turning all the same.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID

Great movie I just saw this movie yet another time today, and i have to say that it blew me away - even though i have watched this movie over and over. The great element of this movie is the fact that it is deals with major issues such as forgiveness, denial etc. Forget about stupid mainstream b-movies this is the real deal. A great movie with a greater meaning, which you will remember many years after watching this movie. I hope this will encourage other people to watch this movie. This is one the best danish movies i've ever seen and i think that's why it has been translated into other languages. 10/10