Adam's Apples (Adams æbler)

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Anders Thomas Jensen's (writer of 'Brothers', and New Zealand favourite 'After the Wedding') 2005 black comedy.

"That this wicked black comedy is written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, the writer of 'Brothers' should be reason enough to recommend it. That it's an often side-splittingly funny - yet also thoughtful - fable on the nature of good and evil featuring a spectacularly grumpy Neo-Nazi (Ulrich Thomsen) and an irksome priest (the brilliant Mads Mikkelsen - virtually unrecognisable after his skinhead in the Pusher films elsewhere on our program) is yet another. The plot? Adam, an ex-con, is sent to serve out his community service at the church centre run by the earnest Ivan, who sets him a task: to bake an apple pie. Sounds easy but it proves anything but." [Sydney Film Festival 2006]

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Rated: R16, Violence and offensive language
Running Time: 1:33
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Directed by: Anders Thomas Jensen (The Green Butchers)
Starring: Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nicolas Bro, Paprika Steen

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Rating: 4 Chrischurch Press [James Croot]

Based on the Old Testament Book of Job, Jensen's first-class script mixes biblical allegories with a bizarre collection of quirky and quixotic characters. And central to the tale's success is another stand-out performance from Mikkelsen (After the Wedding, Casino Royale). Unflappably cool, calm and chatty, his scene-stealing priest delivers a sermon-ful of quotable lines - ``Evil? That's awfully rude to write that on someone's CV'' _ and a host of memorable moments (breaking off counselling with an alcoholic, pregnant woman to complain about an uneven number of cookies offered to them). Throw in Thomsen's (Mostly Martha) sensitive tough-guy and Jeppe Kaas' playful yet haunting score, and Apples is a tasty, slightly-spicy treat well worth sampling.
Los Angeles Times

Pitched somewhere between religious parable and slapstick, the black-hearted satire "Adam's Apples" has something important to say about the nature of redemption. Or perhaps it just wants to seem like it does. Like his countryman Lars von Trier, the Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen mixes spiritual inquiry with shell game, never quite tipping his hand as to what's sincere and what's said with a smirk.
New York Times

The Danish writer and director Anders Thomas Jensen's 2005 feature, "Adam's Apples" — about a neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a rural church run by a sunshine-and-lollipops vicar — is one of the latest examples of the post-"Pulp Fiction" bloody comedy. It's also one of the weirdest, mixing glib humor with dead-serious spiritual inquiry.
Rating: 3 NZ Herald [Peter Calder]

A surreal parable punctuated with violent episodes is shockingly hilarious but empty-hearted.
Variety [USA]

A funny, politically incorrect and, somewhere deep down, thoughtful black comedy, "Adam's Apples" is the third and final film in helmer-writer Anders Thomas Jensen's excellent trilogy centered on oddballs and misfits in Denmark.

Release date: May 8th 2008.

We haven't received times for this movie in this location yet. However these are updated as cinemas announce them, so check back soon. Hopefully the lovely cinemas in your location will choose to play it shortly. ~Ed.