Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

endymionng Despite some of the previous comments this is still a remarkable period piece - yes the acting is wooden at times, but the fact that the actors physically actually grows up during the movie due to the 3 year span in filming, more than makes up for it in my opinion. The two other popular danish movies which takes place at the same period Zappa (1983) followed by Twist and Shout (1984) are arguably better and packs far more emotional punch with better acting. Yes some of the drama in this should have been written differently (an analysis of Hamlet leads to a total meltdown in a character - seriously...), two pregnancy stories is too much and the voice-over is just a bad bad idea which is totally unnecessary. Several characters reading The Catcher In The Rye in the third act, without using it for anything other than a clue to a feeling is also a bit off. Still a lot of the sentiments depicted are everlasting and as a coming of age movie this is far superior to most of its kind produced in America.

emkarpf I've seen this film at the Lübeck film festival, with English subtitles. I have never seen a film of this director before. I'm saying this because former commentators have talked about language and the director repeating himself - I wouldn't know about that.What I've seen was an interesting love story of adolescents, with all the insecurities and incongruities I remember from my own life at that age. The characters were interesting, their interaction believable. The story was well-constructed - a lot of things you learned in passing during the first half-hour turned out to have some impact later on. It is not easy to knit real life memories so closely together that they will carry over a two hour movie. What really made the movie come to life was the decision to extend shooting over a three-year-period, so the actors would actually get older during the movie. This cannot have been easy, especially as the film is a period piece. But it lends a special credibility to the story which I admire.

Moeborg I couldn't agree more with Jimpansy. Avoid like the plague. Why doesn't Malmroos see a shrink and get on with his life instead of inflicting his banal teenage traumas on the rest of us. The worst thing about having paid money to see this (all other movies were sold out, and the people I were with wanted to see something) is that it will encourage Malmroos in his delusion that anybody cares, and to keep making more movies. (Actually the same movie over and over). I don't normally post comments, but felt that a warning was in order. No matter how much I try, I honestly can't think of anything positive to say about this movie. And I do like slow movies such as"The weeping camel" and human drama like Ken Loach. Malmroos should start doing something of use for the world such as cleaning or looking after old people.

Jimpansy For the last couple of decades Niels Malmros has made various versions of the same story. This is not an exception. It is however way worse than the previous ones.Acting was ridiculously poor. Especially The girl lead was truly awful. Every piece of dialogue seemed staged and theatrical. No lines were that of 15-16-17 year old students, but rather a elderly mans perception of how they are supposed to talk.The movie is boring to the extreme. In order to counteract this - obviously the boredom issue was apparent even to the instructor - unfunny jokes are put into the script every once in a while. These made me cringe.I do however enjoy poor movies, and this one is memorable. Enjoyable to some extent, but not intentionally so.