Show Me Love

Name: Show Me Love
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Released: 1998-10-23
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecka Liljeberg, Erica Carlson, Mathias Rust, Stefan Hörberg

I'd rather be happy now than in 25 years.

Fucking Åmål (1998)

Timing: 1:29 (89 min)

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Actors and characters

Video for the film Show Me Love — Original Trailer

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Release date

1998-10-23

Country

Denmark, Sweden

Production

Film i Väst, SVT, Zentropa Entertainments, Memfis Film

Genre

Comedy, Romance, Drama

Budget

Box office

Website

Director

Lukas Moodysson

Actors

Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecka Liljeberg, Erica Carlson, Mathias Rust, Stefan Hörberg, Josefine Nyberg, Ralph Carlsson, Maria Hedborg, Axel Widegren, Jill Ung
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Scenario

Producer

Lars Jönsson

Camera operator

Ulf Brantås

Composer

Artist

Heidi Saikkonen, Lina Strand

Audition

Imor Hermann

Editing

Michał Leszczyłowski, Bernhard Winkler
Whole Team (13)

Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

According to Elena Kiper, one of the producers of the t.A.T.u. group, it was Moodysson's film that inspired the idea of using a lesbian image to promote the project. The film's international English title, 'Show Me Love,' coincides with the title of one of t.A.T.u.'s songs.
In 2005, a theatrical adaptation of this film was staged in Basel, Switzerland.
In Denmark, the film is recommended to teachers by 'Det Danske Filminstitut' for use in the school curriculum.
The final scene, where Elin and Agnes walk out of the school toilet together, is a literal coming out – in English, the expression 'coming out' (disclosure, outing) or 'coming out of the closet' describes the process of a person voluntarily and openly acknowledging their homosexuality.