Show Me Love
Why this pick
Like A Swedish Love Story, it treats adolescent attraction with unusual tenderness and observational honesty, letting awkwardness, social pressure and small private moments carry the emotion.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Like A Swedish Love Story, it treats adolescent attraction with unusual tenderness and observational honesty, letting awkwardness, social pressure and small private moments carry the emotion.
Why this pick
A far harsher companion in its clear-eyed Scandinavian realism: it shares Roy Andersson's attention to young people moving through an adult world that fails to protect them.
Why this pick
This ensemble portrait shares the original's compassionate gaze at adults' messy disappointments, while preserving a lively, intimate sense of people reaching for connection.
Why this pick
For the same filmmaker's distinctive visual sensibility, its rigorously composed tableaux turn ordinary human loneliness and absurdity into dry, tenderly melancholy comedy.
Why this pick
Its patient, delicate storytelling finds profound feeling in glances, silences and routine, offering the same unforced tenderness toward a young person discovering emotional possibility.
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01 / THE STORY
The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their own lives. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seem totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Annika
Pär
John Hellberg, Annika's Father
Elsa, Annika's Mother
Roger, Annika's Brother