Moodysson has an uncanny eye and ear for teen speech and attitude, and is able to capture it without the usual condescension and exploitation.
Show Me Love(Fucking Åmål)
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Sweden, Denmark · 1998
1h 29m
Director Lukas Moodysson
Starring Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecka Liljeberg, Mathias Rust, Erica Carlson
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
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When teenage Elin ends up at the unpopular Agnes’s birthday party as the only guest and kisses her on a dare, the two girls must reckon with their burgeoning sexualities amidst their small backwater town of Åmål. Funny, tender, and true, this film treats its teen characters with more complexity than most movies about teens.
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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.
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.
Show Me Love has the pulse of teen life down-pat, shaming its many sleek and glossy American counterparts at every turn.
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.
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