cinematography: Ulf Brantas
cut: Michal Leszczylowsky, Bernhard Winkler
produced by: Laars Jonson
sound: Nils Nilsson
art directors: Lina Strand, Heidi Saikkonen

production companies: Memfis Film, Sveriges Television (SVT), Trollywood AB, SVT Drama, Zentropa Productions

made: April-May 1998 
location: Trollhättan (Åmål), Kungälv (ice hockey rink)

Slovak premiere: 15.7.1999
distribution: WN Danubius / ITA Slovakia
certification: 15
Swedish premiere: 23.10. 1998
certification: 11

"...beguiling, a wry coming of age story"
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

"Charmingly poignant."
Tom Bliss, In Los Angeles

"This is a lovely film ."
Chuck Wilson, LA Weekly

"Show Me Love hasn't the polish of its hipper American counterparts; it has something far more important, and that's a heart."
Anthony Quinn, Independent

"...the film doesn't need false melodramatics to achieve its power"
David Ansen, Newsweek

"In the small Swedish town Amal doesn't love Peter Lucia, Romeo Julia or Tristan Izolda but Agnes loves Elin."
Marek Puskas, Pravda

click here for full-texts and translations of Interviews & Reviews from magazines, newspapers and websites...

IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
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She was born on 12.2. 1984 in Gävle, Sweden. Act for the first time in the 1997 film "Sanning eller konsekvens" (Truth or Dare), 1998 in TV series "St Mikael", her last film from 1999 "Tomten är far till alla barnen" (In Bed with Santa). Red is her favourite color and 1984 by George Orwell her favourite book. A Clockwork Orange directed by Stanley Kubrick her favourite film because of its society critic which is something she thinks is important. She wants to be "serial killer or rock star", listens to Bad Cash Quartet, can speak English and Russian because her mother Irina is Russian. Together with Rebecca she won the Swedish Film Award (Guldbagge) as best actress in 1999. At the moment she is living with her parents and older sister in Stockholms suburb Alvik.
Favourite scene: dream of a foot-fetist, this is how she called the scene where Elin is laying on a bed and dreaming about Agnes, and her feets are shown closely for a while.

She was born on 13.5. 1981 in Turinge, Sweden. She is living and studying in Stockholm. Acted from childhood in theatre, films and television-her first role was in "Sunes Jul" (Sune`s Christmas) in 1991, to get the role of Agnes helped her film "Närkontakt" from year 1997, in 1999 she made "Där regnbagen slutar" (Where the rainbow ends) and "Sherdil". Blue is her favourite color, frog her favourite animal (it used to be panda), she likes computers (PowerMac 7500/250Mhz G3 and PC, Netscape 4.5-information from summer 99), embroidery and writing, her favourite film is "Broderna Lejonhjarta" (The Brothers Lionheart) and Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy and Michael Ende`s Momo her favourite books, listens to Edie Brickell and Leah Andreone. She wants to be a doctor, she was making money apart from acting also with making websites.
Favourite scene: O`BOY-the last one

He was born on 17.1. 1969 in Malmo, Sweden, he is living in Malmo with his wife and his two sons, he is vegetarian. He wrote 5 books including one novel, FA was his first full-length film, before this he made 3 short- films. "Det var en mork och stormig natt" (It was a dark and stormy night)-student film at Dramatiska Institutet (1994) with Ernst Gunter and Izabella Scorupco, "En uppgörelse i den undre världen" (A scene in the lower world) with Stefan Sauk for the final examination at DI (1995) and "Bara prata lite" (Just talk bit) with Sten Ljuggren in 1997. His recent film is "Tillsammans" (Together)-opening 25.8. 2000. He likes many kinds of music including Morrissey like Agnes, his favourite film is Mike Leigh's Secrets & lies.
Filmmaking, he says, was practically a last resort: "I was writing and working as a waiter," he explains, "and I wanted to change my whole life. So I applied for three different educations-to finish high school, with the intention of becoming a lawyer, to a culinary institute, and to film school. Luckily, only the film school would take me." He graduated from Stockholm's Dramatiska Institutet.
Favourite scene: Elin with her mother watching bingolotto

Yvonne-Drifter
Broder Daniel-Whirlwind
Betty N' Boop-No Dinero No Amor
Evelyn-Blue Sky Black
Gyllene Tider-När vi tva blir en
Waldo`s People-U Drive Me Crazy
Combayah-Fantasy Dreamworld
Karl-Heinz Glockman-Fantasi for elorgel #34
Albinoni-Adagio
Foreigner-I want to Know What Love Is
Evelyn-Funny Bunny Boy
Lars Gullin-Danny`s Dream
Broder Daniel-I`ll be gone
Souls-Simplicity
Broder Daniel-Underground
Robyn-Show Me Love

Soundtrack was released by Warner Music Sweden in December 1998 (catalog # 3984-26063-2), it was released also a single with 3 songs by Broder Daniel.

here you can find the CD booklet scans and soundtrack quotes

Trailer from Swedish TV:
3 minutes, poor quality, interesting content
download: fucking_trailer.rm (RealVideo 1,7 MB)

English (US) Trailer:
1 minute and 20 seconds, good quality and content, good transfer speed
download: showmelove.mov (QuickTime 1,9 MB)

Soundtrack commercial:
30 seconds, normal quality, interesting content
download: cdrej.mov (QuickTime 0,4 MB)

Script:

Full-text of the film script written by Lukas Moodysson translated to English, there are also more than 50 pictures (grabbed from the DVD) from the film in the text.
I do not recommend to read it before seeing the film itself because you will loose that rare and strong feeling how brilliant it is made-the script is very minimal.

Fucking Amal Screensaver:

It contains high-quality pictures from the film and of the actresses Alexandra Dahlström and Rebecca Liljeberg. It is fully legal and harmless. User friendly and in English.
The installation file is 1,2 MB.

download: fa-saver.exe

Fucking Amal Screensaver 2:

It contains more than 50 high-quality pictures from the film, grabbed from the DVD. It is fully legal and harmless. User friendly and in English.
The installation file is 3,1 MB.

download: fa-saver2.exe

Links:

oebfa.com
lots of info also about other films by Lukas Moodysson, picx, DVD grabs, scans, videos, translations from Swedish, cut scenes and pictures from the FA book, complete info how to order FA on DVD or VHS, reviews, frequently updated-recommended

fucking-amal.startpagina.nl
everything you ever wanted to know about Fucking Amal, Lukas Moodysson, Rebecka Liljeberg or Alexandra Dahlström, every site you ever wanted to visit

rebecka.cjb.net
homage to Rebecca, in English with many pictures and information, nice design

Yahoo! Clubs Showmelove
FA fanclub on Yahoo, discussion board, many possibilities, you have to be a member for full access

Show me love - please!
older site about film, not updated anymore but still interesting, more versions of the script, infos about characters, cast and crew

fucking-amal.com
portal like site with extensive overview of links related to the film, discussions, in English, German and French (now part of oebfa.com)

more links...