Show Me Love (1998)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Did you people see the same film I saw?

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Show Me Love, although decades old and a little dated still rings with the universal and inescapable truth that all angst ridden teenagers have to deal with; the question: Who Am I? Our two heroines are dealing with these emotions internally and on their own. Their plight is the same and they can recognize a kindred spirit in the other but are too shy or conscious ridden to act on it. This film is more than a "Lesbian Movie." It is about more than just the sexual orientation of the two leads (Who just happen to be female.) It is about how scared we are of society and of what others think. It is about breaking free of repression, whether it be physical or in your mind. Rebecka Liljeberg and Alexandra Dahlstrom convey this with the subtleties and emotions that only the most exceptional actors can express. They show us that it is okay to be alone and who you are. Not to apologize for who or what you love and to stand strong when faced with adversity. Because half of the time it is only in your head. This movie will forever be a classic in the LGBT world.10/10

I approached this film with some trepidation. It's a little suspect when a man does a movie about lesbians, and when they are so young it makes for uncomfortable possibilities. Fortunately, the movie was neither as lurid nor as simple-minded as I feared, and is actually a fairly honest depiction of the pitfalls, confusion and cruelty of adolescence. The two young actresses at the center of the film are both exceptionally good, and although Moodysson's simple camera style doesn't leave much to discuss, it does lend everything a Cassavetes-like intimacy. I also appreciated that these kids weren't given inappropriate dialogue that would indicate a wisdom beyond their years. They talk like kids talk. There is a certain predictability to it, however, and the ending seems a little too easy given how generally realistic the rest of it is. But perhaps it's warranted... for these characters, it's the moment that matters, not the future. Agnes even tells us as much. Let them have the moment they've earned, cynicism be damned.

Indeed, this is a must-see kind of movie. Rebecka Liljeberg really shines through, as does Alexandra Dahlström, but I have a thing for Rebecka, so there lies my main-focus.This movie depicts how it is to go to school and to be an outcast in its most realistic form. It's not like in American High-School movies with clicks, because we don't have clicks in Sweden, but we have the people who's partying and having fun, and the people who's not. Agnes (Rebecka Liljeberg) is every girl being lonely and depressed due to school and friend like issues. Her homosexuality doesn't make it easier for her, of course, and her being in-love with one of the "cooler" girls gives us a homosexual love-story portrayed in a very realistic way.We see Agnes cry and being humiliated, and Rebecka Liljeberg really makes a perfection out of her character. It's so intense that it touches your heart in a way that very few movies do.Alongside Agnes and her depression and loneliness, the movie also depicts a realistic view on how kids get drunk, humiliate each other and a longing for something else than "this".I recommend this movie to anyone and everyone. It's a very good love-story and it also tells us how hard it is to be a kid, something that we maybe don't want to remember as we grow older and older. The pressure we had on us to be "that" way, and how we so longed for adulthood and freedom. See this movie, and be amazed by the great performances of Rebecka Liljeberg and Alexandra Dahlström.

I came across this film entirely by chance. So far I have only seen it in fragmentary form on Youtube but I am completely in love with it (my CD is on order). Others here have already described it much more eloquently than I ever could so I won't attempt a synopsis.My adolescent years in a traditional English boys' boarding school in the early 70s could hardly have been more different from small town Sweden yet I identified completely with lonely, beautiful, shy Agnes - so adored and cared for by her understanding parents but so unhappy with her lot, misunderstood and mocked by her petty foul-mouthed schoolmates, yearning for an impossible love.For me Lindsay Anderson's "If...." (1968) has always been the defining movie of my adolescence for its exaggerated, satirical portrait of public school life. That film touches very briefly on the love boys could have for each other but does not explore the territory; love which seemed at the time so perfect and pure, transcending the surrounding cruelty and vulgarity, made all the more poignant by its forbidden nature and the ostracism it entailed. F***ing Amal fills that gap and belongs up there with Anderson's masterpiece.My favourite moments are not the obvious ones of the kissing scene or the dream sequence, but the sight of Agnes' tear stained face as she types her thoughts into her computer and her quiet nod of assent in the cubicle. The ending is uplifting but I was left with doubts. Would Elin really have had the courage to do this? Is it just a passing whim for her? Perhaps that is why the film is made to end so quickly. The perfect moment had been arrived at and bliss like this can never be sustained, or perhaps ever repeated.