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Summary: Show Too Slow
Review: I don't mind subtitles. I don't mind coming of age movies. I don't mind movies about the misfit and the popular who get together. This movie is about all the above, and for me it was too slow. The story line has been seen over and over again. I had a hard time not wanting to kick the young girl underdog. Hey, get your head out of your ass. Her style grated. There's a scene where she disses a disabled girl. I don't see how that moved the story along. Basically, the movie irritated me. But there are a lot of reviews that say how great the movie is, just not for me.
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Summary: ...
Review: It's a sad thing that they retitled this movie 'Show Me Love' because the slightly angstier original title, 'F***ing Amal', is much more appropriate. Take all the pressures, emotions, quirks, changes, and oppresive locations (school, home, parties... even the city we live in) we have to deal with as teenagers, bottle them up, and you have the essence of this film. Recently I've seen Welcome to the Dollhouse and Lost and Delerious, two movies that roughly fall into the same genre, but, while Welcome to the Dollhouse did a perfect job at capturing the frustration of the downtrodden and the general Jr. High/High School social hierarchy, it was perhaps a bit too bitter and focused on satire. Show Me Love is a much warmer movie, and falls somewhere between those other two, although probably closer in spirit to Lost and Delerious (only less fantastical). Watch this movie, show it to your 16 year olds... There's not much else to say about it, other than that parents afraid of "exposing" their kids to homosexuality should grab ahold of and quickly yank out the 6' pole they're sitting on, lest they prevent themselves and their teenagers from seeing many worthy films... The two best 'teen movies' i've seen in the past few years (lost and delerious, show me love), are also ones that are open and mature about homosexuality, both chose to remain Unrated rather than face an MPAA 'R' or 'NC-17', while most of the pg-13 movies conservative parents allow their teenagers to see are extremely explicit, immature, and probably much more averse to the parents' ideals.
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Summary: Moving and Honest.
Review: This is a coming of age story that struck me as being true-to-the-heart and very gripping, often being poignant. The latter is for myself the best proof that I liked the movie a lot (so many movies are made with the intention of being poignant, with as result hopeless affairs).
The two leads are talented and made everything look realistic. So much that I was pleasantly surprised to find out that they look even the age they are supposed to play, even though Rebecka Liljeberg and Erica Carlson are older in real-life than in Show Me Love (also known as F**king Amal). The ** are there so as to prevent Amazon from butchering this review. Do not miss this one.
A review mentioned: "outgrossing Titanic in Sweden and The Netherlands."
Regarding the above: Titanic is an excellent example of superficial, pretentious crack, and those two countries have taste (no pun intended). And, Sweden/Denmark, make more movies like this!
Heartbreakingly simple but the epitome of Truth. http://amal.szm.sk/fa2.htm for more information...
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This is my favorite foreign film. It's a simple Swedish love story. The simplicity is the best part and it captures the liveds of teenagers well. The ending was a little weak, but the film as a whole was great. I could watch it over and over again.
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Summary: OK
Review: At first I was sort of lost then you when the movie progress, you start to realize how Elin is totally depress.
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Summary: Amazing!!!!
Review: I love this movie! It's so real and deep to me. It's more then a gay movie. it's about love, and trusting your heart rather then your so-called "friends". Alexandra and Rebecka really bring the movie to a whole new level. I don't think it would have the same affect it did without the cast they had. It's a great scrpit, but the cast played the parts true. It's so real, unlike other teenage movies that just make up stuff. I'm in high school and it's just like they make it seem. It's a movie anyone can enjoy, gay or straight, it's just good all around. If you haven't seen it, then I strongly sugest you do so.
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Summary: short and sweet
Review: ok... short and sweet because the movie is short. it just started to get so good and it ended abruptly with the characters talking about chocolate milk... not that it is bad at all. the movie trully depicts the hurdles of teenage gay realizations. i for one had the same experience. i highly recommend this movie to everybody who is willing to understand the minds of teenagers. it sure answered a lot of questions on my part... 8)
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Summary: isn't rebecka just the cutest 16 year old?
Review: ok some guy up there said that rebecka liljberg was elin and dahlstrom played agnes when its the reverse. this is a great swedish movie although it won an award so they had to give it a less sensitive name (as aposed to F**king Åmål) a great movie that everyone should see at least once
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Summary: They'll show you love...
Review: A wonderful coming-of-age story that narrates the encounter between two Swedish adolescent girls. What is wonderful about this movie is that it is perfectly exportable to any part of the world, and any type of relationship. However, Modysson's choice of portraying lesbianism in youth is a most fortunate one at a time when Hollywood keeps opting for sanitized portrayals of youth sexuality.
The movie is sweet (who doesn't have a big smile on their face after the last scene?) but not unrealistic: several scenes -which I should not reveal - keep the viewer very much aware of the extremely painful experience that growing up as a young lesbian in a small town can be. Do not expect fancy cinematography here, and be prepared for some of the "this-is-too-slow" feeling that invades American viewers when watching foreign films. However, the experience is worth it. If you are in the education field, this is a fantastic movie to show to your students, who will find numerous parallelisms between what is portrayed in the film and their daily lives. It is great material for in-class discussion, and will undoubtedly contribute to open the eyes of many...
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Summary: Incredibly Beautiful Story
Review: A perceptive and bittersweet story about two girls growing up in a small Swedish town. Amal is a town where nothing at all happens, hence the title "F... Amal" borne from Elin`s frustration.
Agnes, ostracised by her peers and misundestood by her parents, is so charming you just want to hug her to death. Elin, who wants to be Miss Sweden, is brash but she grows on you. It is mostly her story as she is the one who changes, when she makes an unexpected move - she goes to the wrong party - the birthday party of Agnes, a lesbian, who has a crush on Elin. This is the catalyst for them to discover their attraction for each other.
Filmed in documentary style, the harshness of small-town
life is contrasted with the funny and gentle tenderness that develops between the girls.
Both actresses won the prestigious Swedish Guldbagge award, and the film has won many international awards, outgrossing Titanic in Sweden and The Netherlands.
Show Me Love - it certainly did!
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