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her peers and to deal with an immense crush on Elin.  When their relationship begins taking a sexual turn, Elin breaks off the friendship and begins dating a local boy, sending Agnes back into her depressed isolation.  Elin eventually realize she is attracted only to Agnes. The film makes some interesting twists and turns as it develops.  It finishes with an unexpected, but happy ending.   
Show Me Love is undoubtedly one of the sweetest films I have ever seen.  Both girls are absolutely adorable and managed to make more than a few non-adolescent members of the audience re-experience teenage angst and the joy of first love.  The movie was also invaluable to the queer youth in the audience who, for perhaps the first time, saw themselves reflected on "the big screen."  Teenagers and those of us who used to be teens laughed and gasped at Agnes's and Elin's experiences and sighed longingly at their few tender kisses.  And this is, perhaps, the most priceless aspect of Show Me Love.
I was fortunate to be able to see both movies and unreservedly recommend each to all readers of The GW Feminist Review.

on death row, where they remain today.
Boys Don't Cry is an incredibly powerful film.  It features excellent performances by the entire cast and particularly by Hilary Swank, who went through her own gender transformation in order to portray Brandon Teena.  Much has been written about Brandon's life and death.  But the film's director, Wendy Peirce, reported in a post-screening Q&A that she sought to uncover the emotional truth of Brandon's life and of Lana's undying love for him.  Her success was incontrovertible as the film's ending was met with stunned silence and then a standing ovation.
Show Me Love is drastically different from Peirce's film.  It tells the lighthearted but poignant story of two high school girls, Agnes and Elin, in the small town of Amal. 
Popular Elin hates the fact that Amal is always behind the times and searches desperately for a way to make life interesting.  Agnes has yet to make any friends at school, where rumors of her lesbianism abound.  She struggles to connect with