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Show Me Love (1998)

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Reviews Counted: 39

Fresh: 35

Rotten:4

Average Rating: 7.6/10

Consensus: A naturalistic depiction of teenage life, Show Me Love has a charming, authentic feel.

Runtime: 89 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: Elin and Agnes are a pair of teenage girls trapped in the small town of Amal, an isolated place where nothing ever happens. Elin is teased for being an outsider, but she doesn't realize that Agnes... Elin and Agnes are a pair of teenage girls trapped in the small town of Amal, an isolated place where nothing ever happens. Elin is teased for being an outsider, but she doesn't realize that Agnes has a crush on her. After an accidental kiss, the two girls must learn about themselves and their identities. A touching and honest story about growing up in a confusing world, this movie became the highest-grossing movie of all time in Sweden. Originally titled F------ AMAL. [More]

Starring: Alexandra Dahlstrom, Rebecca Liljeberg, Erica Carlson, Mathias Rust

Starring: Alexandra Dahlstrom, Rebecca Liljeberg, Erica Carlson, Mathias Rust, Stefan Horberg

Director: Lukas Moodysson

Director: Lukas Moodysson
Screenwriter: Lukas Moodysson
Producer: Lars Jonsson

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Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
05/20/09
Gunnar Rehlin
Variety
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Lukas Moodyson's debut feature has a grainy, immediate feel that nicely enhances the story's emotional honesty -- a quality that our own popular teen movies have only just begun to embrace.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
07/18/07
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

This powerful, funny romantic drama neatly integrates the dilemmas of a girl in love, the girl she loves, a boy who also loves that girl, and that girl's sister.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
07/18/07
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader
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A simple, charming, and slightly edgy romance between two teenage girls.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

While the storyline has few surprises, the central performances create a touching relationship, despite the suspicion that the male writer/director's interest in the subject is slightly dubious, or at least tokenistic.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Trevor Johnston
Time Out

Nobody can deny the honesty or the outright sincerity this film has.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Morgan Miller
Film Threat

No review available.

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07/29/05
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

Dahlström and especially Liljeberg are first-rate.

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07/21/05
Jeff Millar
Houston Chronicle
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No review available.

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07/04/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Unfortunately, as the plot develops, it shies away from exploring that discontent, in favor of demonstrating precisely the kind of naiveté and sweetness that one would expect to find in any teen romance.

Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment Comment
04/11/04
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

No review available.

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08/19/03
Brandon Judell
PopcornQ

Moodysson's story may be an old one -- the taboo romance between lovers from different ends of the school spectrum -- but his sharp script refreshes old themes.

Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | comment Comment
12/02/02
Liese Spencer
Sight and Sound

I must have missed what the Swedes see in this film. I found it mildly interesting at best.

Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

It's just an incredibly insightful character drama about true, awkward, beautiful first love, and it's all the better for it. Oh, and that last shot is as cute as it gets.

Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | comment Comment
09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

It's an awkward, unapologetic, unconventional -- and ultimately winning -- look at first love, one that unabashedly portrays the complications and confusion that result from those first crushes and rushes of attraction and passion.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
04/03/02
Paula Nechak
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

High school, small town, teenagers in hormone hell -- or is that heaven?

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
03/19/02
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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The two lead performances by Dahlstroem and Liljeberg are entirely naturalistic.

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01/23/02
Randall King
Jam! Movies

...a warm coming-of-age story that happens to be a coming-out story.

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09/18/01
Tom Block
culturevulture.net

El título original (en los EUA se exhibió bajo el nombre de Show Me Love) es llamativo: Fucking Åmål no sólo sugiere indirectamente el sexo ...

Full Review Source: Cinenganos | comment Comment
09/10/01
Alex Ramirez
Cinenganos

It's worth going out of your way to witness one of the year's best films.

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02/07/01
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