Rating: 
Summary: An easier pill to swollow
Review: While I will probably say some things that may seem to contradict my 5 star review let me explain. Yes the movie is good and the acting for the most part is excellent, among those being the acting of Rebbecka Liljeberg, Alexandra Dahlstrom, the father and the mother. The rest was just pointless banter that I could not just wait to get over with, mostly the scenes when the cool kids are hanging out drinking.
The realism of what it is like to be different in junior high was no where near what I remeber and I didn't have to deal with the stigmata of being labeled homosexual.
However I digress and will give cudos to the evolution of Agnes and Elins relationship. I say it is a easier pill to swallow because if you have ever seen the movie "The Truth About Jane" which is based on actual event you will no what I mean.
By watching this film you can say I watched a coming of youth film about lesbians without really having to sit through any real gut wrentching scenes. Sure you do get the one suicide "attempt" but it is not believable and I don't think it was meant to be.
In short sit back and watch a great coming of age movie starring two brilliant young actresses in a movie you'll be sure to watch over and over.
Oh and if your worried about the subtitles once you get into the movie you almost forget your reading them plus a lot of the words you may recognize anyway, but that could just be me and my slight know knowledge of European languages.
Enjoy!
Rating: 
Summary: YOUNG, FUN AND FRESH
Review: Show Me Love is a young, fresh and heart-warming tale of two girls discovering love, life and each other. Young teens Agnes and Elin are both students at the same school but lead vastly different lives - Agnes with her nuclear family and Elin with her booze-swilling sister and largely-absent mother. That all changes when they are thrown together at a disaster-plagued birthday party. What follows is a rollercoaster of emotions with both girls forced to face their feelings. A charming film that offers an up-beat perspective to the trials and tribulations of coming out and falling in love.
Rating:
Summary: "I don't want to be like everyone else"
Review: Show Me Love is the unfortunately sanitised alternative title of ... Amal with the result being that it sounds like a B-grade Mills & Boon romance, rather than the gritty and realistic insight into the trials and tribulations of teenage life that it is. The outstanding achievement of the film is that it doesn't fall into the same trap as many other teen flicks - the pitfall of unrealistically glamorising teen lives. Life in Amal is boring, trivial, angst-ridden, small-minded and definitely not at all glamorous. The titular town is in Sweden and is perhaps best summed up by bored teen Elin contemplating another evening of hanging around and getting drunk: "Why must we live in ... Amal? When something's in, it takes so long to get here, it's out already because we're so ... behind!" In order to liven life up a bit, Elin accepts a dare to kiss Agnes, a socially awkward classmate who is rumoured to be lesbian. The kiss affects Elin more than she cares to admit - she likes Agnes, but Agnes isn't 'cool'; anyone who is different is the butt of cruel jokes, and Elin has her reputation to worry about. Alexandra Dahlstrom and Rebecca Liljeberg deliver outstanding performances, as indeed does the entire largely teenage cast. This combined with the 'fly on the wall' camera work creates a film that is both naturalistic and engaging (despite the fact that non-Swedish speaking viewers must rely on subtitles). The story builds to the penultimate scene in the school bathroom when, sick of being messed around, Agnes confronts Elin, in a particularly memorable and funny yet touching 'coming out' sequence.
Rating:
Summary: Good Movie
Review: This was a good movie. I didn't like the subtitles, but they were really easy to follow. The acting was great and the storyline was good (the only thing I didn't enjoy was Elin whining through the entire movie). Fourteen-year-old Elin is popular at her school, where Agnes is very unpopular. Agnes has only lived in Amol for a year and a half.
Agnes is in love with Elin. Elin starts to fall for her, but she is afraid of what her friends will think. Elin starts to 'date' a 17 year old guy who likes her (and whom she loses her virginity to; there aren't any sex scenes in this movie though, only kissing).
Eventually Elin tells Agnes her true feelings, and the movie ends with everyone knowing they are a couple.
Rating:
Summary: A Brilliant Film not to be missed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is a true account of what it is like to be a teenager and in love, a truly brilliant story, romantic, moving amazing and the best part being it's love between 2 girls.
Rating:
Summary: Beautiful
Review: SHOW ME LOVE is a truly poignant story of teen love. It shows, in a frank way, both the heartache and the joy involved in falling in love. The two principals, Rebecka (Agnes) and Alexandra (Elin) are wonderful as they portray the quiet, suffering outcast and her beautiful, boisterous classmate. There is much angst, sadness and even humor along the way. But, eventually love wins out. Excellent.
Rating:
Summary: Show me Love
Review: Very funny coming of age type film. Leaves you smiling. Would recommend it to anyone
Rating:
Summary: Chillingly poignant
Review: Yes, I admit now that I rented this movie for its depiction of a lesbian couple. What can I say - I'm a desperate teenager. I expected to see something of the dramatic worth of, 'But I'm a Cheerleader' - something nice, but corny if it were a standard heterosexual film. How wrong I was. If anything, the relationship and love of the film's title play second fiddle to its exposure of human inadequacy and the clumsiness of youth. From those first few shots of Agnes' very teenage diary writings, to the good intentions of her family as they lovingly yet ineptly profess acceptance of her unpopularity, this is starkly insightful stuff. Lingering shots of characters' silences and solitary moments allow the direction to be reminiscent of Lars von Trier's work in 'Dancer in the Dark'/'The Idiots'. Particularly powerful are the scenes at an adolescent party. Those awkward, teenage encounters, fuelled by furtive first experiences with alcohol and made so hellish by teenage isolation, are depicted with painful accuracy. Of a similar vein are the scenes in which Agnes' family realise that no one is coming to her party ... and those awful scenes with the girl in the wheelchair. Those are so ridiculously painful and awkward that you don't know whether to laugh or be appalled. If there is one thing that detracts from any of this, it is the intrusiveness of parts of the soundtrack, particularly in the scene where the girls first kiss. While blaring guitars are kind of teenage, tacky music always detracts from the delicacy of intimate scenes. Still, this is a small gripe - the film isn't driven by cheap romance, so a small deficiency in this area is negligible. In summary, if you're looking for chicks having sex, rent "If These Walls Could Talk 2". If you're looking for something a little more sophisticated, hire this.
Rating:
Summary: Realistic portrayal of finding one's sexuality
Review: This is a great movie with an incredibly convincing young cast. It definately reminds me of my experiences with sexuality in jr. high. The movie is realistic yet satisfying. Something everyone should watch.
Rating: 
Summary: Show Me Love
Review: It all depends on what you are expecting from this movie. It is a light drama about two girls who take you through their adolescent emotions and experiences, while they are searching for their real identities. Great to see how in some advance societies these characters are allowed to stand up to their peers and families with a shin up and be who they are.
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