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My First Summer
Why this pick
A tender, intimate first-love story centred on two isolated teenage girls, with the same unvarnished emotional honesty and compassionate attention to loneliness.
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MOVIE1998 1h 29m SWE
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Two girls, Agnes and Elin, attend school in the small town of Åmål in Sweden. Elin is Extraversion and introversion#Extroversion and popular but finds her life unsatisfying and dull. Agnes, by contrast, has no real friends and is constantly clinical depression. Agnes is in love with Elin but cannot find any way to express it.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Rebecka Liljeberg
Agnes Ahlberg
Alexandra Dahlström
Elin Olsson
Erica Carlson
Jessica Olsson
Mathias Rust
Johan Hulth
Stefan Hörberg
Markus
Josefine Nyberg
Viktoria
Ralph Carlsson
Olof Ahlberg
Maria Hedborg
Karin Ahlberg