Fucking Åmål

AKA:
Show Me Love (Canada: English title) (UK) (USA) (cable TV title)

Written by:
Lukas Moodysson

Directed by:
Lukas Moodysson

Made in:
Sweden in 1998

Actors:
Alexandra Dahlström .... Elin Olsson
Rebecka Liljeberg .... Agnes

Plot:
Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

Åmål is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she has never done *it*. Another girl in her school, Agnes, is in love with her but is too shy to do anything about it. For different reasons, Elin ends up at Agnes' birthday party as the only guest. They have a girl's night out together but after that Elin desperately avoids Agnes, refusing to even consider her own homosexuality. IMDB

Review:
There aren't that many good Swedish movies, but this one was even up for an Oscar. Yesterday was the first time I heard of the "Show Me Love" title, used for English speaking countries. It is called "Fucking" Åmål because of how much everyone hates living in this town. (Which is funny, because Fredrik and I love the town and wouldn't mind living there!) :/ :) It is a small town, not that far from the summerhouse, and we have been there many, many times. Even my parents have been there once. But this is a good movie. It is a love story, a - difficult love story for the two confused girls. Language is Swedish, and I'm sure it exists with English subtitles, if not even dubbed. But this is a very good movie.