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Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Show Me Love (1998)
Sixteen-year introvert Agnes lives in the boring town of Amal and is in love with her popular 14-year-old classmate Elin. The reclusive girl suffers from loneliness and doesn't know how to escape it. The young Elin, on the other hand, happily accepts everyone's adoration, but feels confined in this town. She feels nothing's happening here and is eager to get away to the big city. She's got no doubt that she has a future as a movie star, model, or even a psychologist. She also subconsciously wants to break free from a family in which she's always fighting with her older sister Jessica and her tired mother. After a getting to know Agnes, however, Elin begins to feel something she's never known...
| Country | Sweden |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Duration | 89 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | Swedish |
| Subtitle | English, Czech |
| Directed by | Lukas Moodysson |
| Screenplay | Lukas Moodysson |
| Director of Photography | Ulf Brantås |
| Edited by | Michal Leszczylowski, Bernhard Winkler |
| Contact | The Swedish Film Institute |
Biography
A writer, director and screenwriter, he graduated from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. He's made short films, but gained fame with his feature debut Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål, 1998). Of his other works we'll mention A Hole in My Heart (Ett hål i mitt hjärta, 2004), Container (2006) and Mammoth (2009).