Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Alexandra DahlströmElin
- Rebecka LiljebergAgnes
- Erica CarlsonJessica
- Mathias RustJohan
- Stefan HörbergMarkus
- Josefine NybergViktoria
- Ralph CarlssonAgnes' Father Olof
- Maria HedborgAgnes' Mother Karin
- Axel WidegrenAgnes' Little Brother Oskar
- Jill UngElin's Mother Birgitta
Recommendations
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Los Angeles Times
A completely charming reality-based romantic fantasy, both sweet-natured and sympathetic, Show Me Love is a leader of the pack. - 90
Film.com
Show Me Love has the pulse of teen life down-pat, shaming its many sleek and glossy American counterparts at every turn. - 88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Moodysson has an uncanny eye and ear for teen speech and attitude, and is able to capture it without the usual condescension and exploitation. - 83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Not only feels real, but it avoids preciousness and cute eccentricity and, in its lean, almost grave, cut-and-dried delivery makes more of an emotional impact because we're able to imprint our own memories of adolescence upon it. - 80
Newsweek
With honesty, charm and an uncanny sympathy for all its characters, the film takes us deep inside the awkward and exhilarating experience of first love. - 75
Portland Oregonian
American teens will respond to the directness of the issues here, as well as the film's brisk and risky tone. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
Shot on reverse film, poet-turned-director Lukas Moodyson's debut feature has a grainy, immediate feel that nicely enhances the story's emotional honesty. - 70
Chicago Reader
Powerful, funny romantic drama.
