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Show Me Love

1998 · 89 min

A tender, awkward, and honest look at teenage longing and loneliness, with moments of humor and raw emotion.

Tagline
I'd rather be happy now than in 25 years.
Overview
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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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • love
  • isolation
  • family
Places
  • small town
  • school
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance7
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, romance, drama
Directed by
Lukas Moodysson
Written by
Lukas Moodysson
Starring
Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecka Liljeberg, Erica Carlson, Stefan Hörberg, Josefine Nyberg, Ralph Carlsson, Maria Hedborg, Axel Widegren
Cinematography
Ulf Brantås
Runtime
89 min
Country
Denmark, Sweden
Languages
Swedish

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