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Show Me Love (Fucking Amal)

Show Me Love (Fucking Amal) (1998)

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90

Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 4

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

91

Average Rating: 7.8/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 1

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

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
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Fucking Åmål is a coming-of-age comedy set in a sleepy little Swedish town called Åmål -- the most boring place on earth according to one of its residents, the adolescent girl Elin. Meanwhile, one of her classmates, Agnes, is quietly in love with Elin, but no one knows about it except her computer. The title comes from Elin's frequent comment about her new home town. The two share a kiss as the result of some cruel manipulation from Elin, but Elin soon returns to apologize, and the two spend a

Oct 3, 2000

Strand Releasing

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All Critics (43) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (4) | DVD (6)

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.

July 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
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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.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Time Out
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Dahlström and especially Liljeberg are first-rate.

July 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
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High school, small town, teenagers in hormone hell -- or is that heaven?

March 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
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A completely charming reality-based romantic fantasy, both sweet-natured and sympathetic.

February 7, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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The movie is funny, gentle, and true.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment (1)
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A charming teen comedy from Sweden.

February 2, 2012 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Poignant subtitled story about two teen girls in love.

November 9, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

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.

July 18, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A simple, charming, and slightly edgy romance between two teenage girls.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

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

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Film Threat

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.

April 11, 2004 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | Comment (1)
MovieMartyr.com

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.

December 2, 2002 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound
Sight and Sound

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

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan
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.

September 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal
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.

April 3, 2002 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Audience Reviews for Show Me Love (Fucking Amal)

Slow but alright. The progress through the film goes well...
December 27, 2009
dreamfaeries

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A very sweet youth love film. It came highly recommended but for me it?s nowhere near as good as the two films Moodysson followed it up with. The young actors are really good though and it can't help but make you feel good.
October 1, 2009
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Foreign Titles

  • Show Me Love (***king Amal) (DE)
  • Show Me Love (UK)
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