Showing posts with label Helene Bergsholm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Helene Bergsholm. Show all posts

Monday, July 2, 2012

Turn Me On, Dammit!





We get umpteen movies about teenage boys’ sexual awakenings but precious few that tell the (often far more interesting) stories of teenage girls’ human development. Jannicke Jacobsen’s “Turn Me On, Dammit!” continues the recent Scandinavian tradition of charmingly matter-of-fact coming-of-age films, of which the apotheosis may have been Lukas Moodysson’s 1998 “Show Me Love.”