“Italian for Beginners,” June 17 2002 (2000), theater. This lovely, humane, touching and disturbing, comic Dogma film from Denmark looks at the various people who are taking an Italian class together. It’s the lightest and cheeriest of all the Dogma films I’ve seen and is marred only by the overly happy and optimistic ending. The disturbing piece involved issues of fetal alcohol syndrome and a beautiful young woman who tries and tries and can’t make it. My terror for my little girl who tries so hard. Still, you really need to see this film. It is humane in a time when most films are formulaic even when they strive for humanity. See this one!