Elin hangs with the in-crowd, popular and pretty, though frustrated
with her rather conventional friends and her mindlessly boy-crazed sister.
Agnes is the bookish outsider. Isolated in the conservative small
town her family has moved to only the previous year, Agnes finds herself
depressingly friendless on her sixteenth birthday. And secretly in
love, with the apparently unattainable Elin, confiding all to her computer
in no uncertain terms. Not just your average tale of teens in love
and lust, this is a daring and hilariously fresh lesbian coming-of-age
film. While Agnes is clearly the outsider, she is also startlingly
confident in her sexuality. And while Elin is clearly the insider,
she has the most to learn about her own desire, and the biggest leap to
make in befriending Agnes (and ditching her pleasant but boring boyfriend).
Together these two girls make a delightful pair, the requited high school
crush all of us wished had happened for us. Eventually they dare to go
where none of their classmates have gone before, even if it simply means
attempting to hitch a ride together into the big city, or grabbing a kiss
in the unlikeliest of places. In Swedish with English subtitles.
7:00 PM Screening only at the Colony Theater $10
Film plus post-screening Babes in Filmland II Party at The Albion
Hotel $15
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