Show Me Love(Fucking Åmål)

Philadelphia Inquirer by

Moodysson has an uncanny eye and ear for teen speech and attitude, and is able to capture it without the usual condescension and exploitation.

Salon by Charles Taylor

Isn't a good movie. It's drab, visually ugly and a little pokey...but the two heroines are so recognizable as real girls, and the young actresses who play them are so appealing, that you keep rooting for these kids.

Newsweek by David Ansen

With honesty, charm and an uncanny sympathy for all its characters, the film takes us deep inside the awkward and exhilarating experience of first love.

Portland Oregonian by Diana Abu-Jaber

American teens will respond to the directness of the issues here, as well as the film's brisk and risky tone.

Film.com by Ernest Hardy

Show Me Love has the pulse of teen life down-pat, shaming its many sleek and glossy American counterparts at every turn.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Shot on reverse film, poet-turned-director Lukas Moodyson's debut feature has a grainy, immediate feel that nicely enhances the story's emotional honesty.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

A completely charming reality-based romantic fantasy, both sweet-natured and sympathetic, Show Me Love is a leader of the pack.

Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector

Powerful, funny romantic drama.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

A light, breezy, often charming little film, with a good cast playing mostly shallow characters.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Paula Nechak

Not only feels real, but it avoids preciousness and cute eccentricity and, in its lean, almost grave, cut-and-dried delivery makes more of an emotional impact because we're able to imprint our own memories of adolescence upon it.