A habit that sticks

Få meg på, for faen (Turn me on, dammit!)

Crit

Alma is a delightful, horny Norwegian 15-year-old with the misfortune of having spent her early years in such an armpit of Scandinavia that she and her friend Sara flip off the town-limits sign every time they pass. Sara has a plan to get out: move to Texas and work for the repeal of capital punishment. Alma's only escape is phone sex with the sympathetic Stig. Then the schoolmate she fancies, Artur, pokes her fully clothed thigh with his dick outside a party at the social hall, and when she reports (not with outrage but with bemusement) this episode, he denies it and she becomes a pariah.

At this point, the film could have taken a dreary Scandinavian turn, but instead it retains its good humor even as it gets sadder. Notwithstanding an unconvincingly simple denouement, this is a lovely coming-of-age story--the sort my daughter is about to tell in a film the making of which will take me away from the movie house and probably the blog for the next 3 weeks.