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Section: Days of Swedish Cinema

Show Me Love (1998) 15

Sweden | 1998 | 89 min.

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...

CountrySweden
Year1998
Duration89 min
Rating15
LanguageSwedish
SubtitleEnglish, 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).

Bullying, Gender, Sexuality + Identity, Youth, Love, Youth