Mads Mikkelsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Paprika Steen, Ole Thestrup, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Nicolas Bro, Ali Kazim, Gyrd Løfquist, Lars Ranthe, Peter Reichhardt, Tomas Villum Jensen, Peter Lambert, Emil Kevin Olsen, Solvej Christensen, Rasmus Rise Michaelsen
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
Good Danish black humor.
Adam's Apples is simultaneously a deconstruction and a satire of the Book of Job; the former because it recognizes and highlights the underlying black humor in the biblical text, and the latter because it rightly points out that more than Job’s patience, we should talk about his madness. Danish priest Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen) is both jobian and quixotic (the costume department deserves a pat on th...
What a strange film... a very good one, mind you. The cast do great work in this 2005 release. Mads Mikkelsen being the obvious standout - top performance! Ulrich Thomsen doesn't really do all that much necessarily, yet still manages to make a big impact with his showing - amusing, by the way, how much hair can change the way you see someone, that ending is quite the mild cranium contort*! I...