1998 · drama · romance
Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål)
Directed by Lukas Moodysson1h 29m1998
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.
Our read: Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål) (1998) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- intimate
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