Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Instant Favorite.

A Brilliant Conflict

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Åmål is a provincial town in Sweden. Brash popular Elin Olsson finds life infuriatingly boring. Agnes Ahlberg has a loving family but her school life is tough. Her only friend is wheelchair bound Viktoria. They are picked on by Elin's friends. Agnes is secretly in love with Elin and so is a boy named Johan. Agnes' parents throw a birthday party for her and only Viktoria shows up. Agnes has a tantrum insulting Viktoria who leaves. Elin shows up with her older sister Jessica as she tries to avoid Johan. Elin kisses Agnes on a dare and leaves. Elin goes to the other party where she gets terribly drunk. Elin is guilt ridden, and goes back to apologize to Agnes just in time as Agnes tries to slit her wrist. Elin falls for Agnes but fears being found out.It's the raw emotions of teenage coming-of-age stories. It is hormone-filled. It is the scariest of fears and the highest of love. The two girls are perfect. Love is messy and ultimately uplifting. Agnes at her birthday is painfully raw emotionally. This is one of the best teen love movies.

I watched the film about 2 years ago as the Swedish actress in my short film talked about it.I was a bit put off by the title as i felt that it was too rude . Anyway the film was very funny about the awakening and coming of age of a lesbian and her girlfriend - both trying to get the courage to come out of the closet ( actually the toilet - sorry spoiler!) I would definitely recommend it in schools and for teens etc , for a more mature audience I would recommend KISS MIG which is actually for older LGBTOn the whole though I liked it , great acting etc and you could really feel the "dead endness of the town" although i must say in reality AMAL is a great place ...

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.

F*cking Åmål or Show Me Love is the 1998 feature length debut from Swedish director Lukas Moodysson. It is a wonderful story of love, discovery and the volatile times we all experience as teenagers. In it we meet Agnes, shy and reserved, struggling to make friends in a new town. She is full of anger at her parents and the world as a whole and secretly harbor's feelings towards another girl, Elin. Elin in stark contrast is confident, popular and full of life, but as with many of her friends, she is bored with her small-town life and wants out, using drink and partying as an escape. Rumours abound about Agnes' sexuality and after an attempt to humiliate Agnes by Elin and her friends, the two spend sometime together which culminates in a beautiful, funny, joyous moment where with the song 'I want to know what love is' playing loudly, they kiss. It is a brilliantly captured moment of that first tentative kiss we all experience, a kiss that can lead to the first real love we feel. And this is where the story takes us; these two young people are experiencing all the joys, emotions and confrontations of love.It is this very realism that makes this film so enjoyable. The teenagers we see and the way they behave is something we can all understand and appreciate as we have all been there. We have all had a first kiss, been in love for the first time, hated our parents, felt lonely, been bullied or bullied others, experimented with drink, drugs and of course sex. Yet regardless of our own sexuality we can still understand the emotions and feelings being portrayed by these characters. That first real kiss the girls have should be enough to take us all back to our own first kiss. Moodysson has also gathered a great young cast with a standout performance being that of Rebecka Liljeberg. Her performance as the troubled Agnes is remarkable. These natural performances help make the story work. But it also works because the film doesn't portray the themes it examines with clichés, as one would expect if this were a Hollywood film. It doesn't sensationalize teenage life, nor does it sensationalize sex or sexuality. It doesn't include violence, guns, stereotypes or ridiculous scenarios that teen films or indeed films exploring love that we see from America can often display. Moodysson presents us with characters and scenarios we can all relate to, in a natural and simple presentation. It is simply an accurate portrayal of being an average teenager.Moodysson not only directed, but also wrote the screenplay, taking him nine drafts before settling on the one we see. Whilst it is filmed on hand-held camera, reminiscent of dogma style films, this isn't as annoying or disconcerting as it could be. In fact it seems to help evoke the themes the film explores and make it more believable, perhaps giving the film a documentary like quality. Moodysson has made a remarkable debut feature, one that examines all the pain and joy of teenage life in a tender, convincing, often funny way that doesn't alienate the audience. The final script had asked to see the two girls walk away hand in hand, but during filming it was changed to the wonderful scene of them sitting, full of nervous energy, not knowing what to do next. It is a simple, realistic way to end the film, because we the viewer can understand how these girls feel. We understand how strange and delightful being in love can be.