Adam's Apples

Every now and then you like to give something you know nothing about a chance and find out nothing beforehand. This Danish film is a great example of what a film has to offer. A script that will take your breath away with many scenes, furthermore enhanced by excellent acting performances led by Mads Mikkelsen, who is one of my very favorite actors. (2016-06-01)

It stars Mads Mikkelsen, but the film was weird for my taste. I wasn't extremely interested in anything, it's not funny or entertaining, I didn't really like the characters, and a few minutes after it was over I had trouble telling in two sentences what it was about. Not much 50% (2017-11-26)

Current cinema has a lot of problems, but perhaps the most threatening of all is political correctness, which reeks of self-censorship and self-deception. In the end, it annoys the viewer by leading to predictable points and dulling the edge of satire, humor, and serious drama that aims to criticize social disorder. It is precisely the political incorrectness and absolute unpredictability of the behavior of the film characters that significantly elevates Adam's Apples above today's film productions. The psychological battle between a passionately believing priest, a cynical technocrat in the form of a local doctor, and, above all, a discharged convict active neo-fascist Adam is presented in an unusual form of tragicomedy, which often teeters on the furthest boundary of what we can label as socially acceptable. However, that is precisely what makes it valuable to me, and very few films in recent years have given me as much joy as this one. Overall impression: 95%. (2012-01-14)

You got to hand it to the Danes. Political correctness is a fairly unknown concept to them. Tasteful black humor with wider significance. At first glance perhaps a bizarre combination, but incredibly funny and, most importantly, good. After Flickering Lights, Anders Thomas Jensen again confirms his talent for “good little" movies. And from now on I am going to give apple pies a very wide berth. You never know what Nazi has been rummaging about in them. (2008-04-05)

You’d expect me to boo this film, as my opinion of all kinds of gods and blind faith is...well, let's just say it’s not good. I had a surprisingly good time with this film, though. Ivan was truly perfect in his consistent and almost unshakable denial of reality. The film was full of excellent, sophisticated humor. Plus, the combination of oil – eggplant – racket was simply hilarious. (2021-04-17)