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.
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07/18/07
Show Me Love (1998)
90 %
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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 has a crush on her. After an accidental kiss,... [More]
Starring: Alexandra Dahlstrom, Rebecca Liljeberg, Erica Carlson, Mathias Rust
Director: Lukas Moodysson
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Reviews for Show Me Love
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.
07/18/07
Top Critic A simple, charming, and slightly edgy romance between two teenage girls.
05/26/06
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.
02/09/06
Top Critic
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.
04/11/04
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.
12/02/02
I must have missed what the Swedes see in this film. I found it mildly interesting at best.
10/21/02
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.
09/10/02
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.
04/03/02
High school, small town, teenagers in hormone hell -- or is that heaven?
03/19/02
Top Critic The two lead performances by Dahlstroem and Liljeberg are entirely naturalistic.
01/23/02
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 ...
09/10/01
It's worth going out of your way to witness one of the year's best films.
02/07/01
Liljeberg is a talented young actress, perceptively playing all of Agnes's moods.
02/07/01
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