Sweet, brave Alma isn’t out to frighten the sheep she’s just unashamed to admit that girls get horny too. Systad Jacobsen is alive to the cruelties and quirks of adolescence - Alma’s best friend, Sara (Malin Bjorhovde), tests the outside world by writing innocent letters to death-row inmates in Texas - and especially the sexual double standard. With its soft, bleached images and occasional detours into black-and-white stills, “Turn Me On,” set in an unspecified recent past, has a gentle oddness as unforced as its performances and as inoffensive as its dialogue. In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on. But it’s his penis that makes first contact, thrust unceremoniously against Alma’s leg one day outside a village dance and when Alma excitedly informs her friends of the crude advance, it is she who pays the social price. Stuck in a back-of-beyond village where sheep outnumber humans, Alma dreams of escape from a turnip-factory future and crushes hard on Artur (Matias Myren), a dreamy choirboy whose eyes secretly follow her around school. If you want to be guaranteed a seat please arrive early.Establishing its affectionately deadpan tone from the get-go, Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s low-key Norwegian comedy takes coming-of-age literally. We give a $1 discount to anyone with a bike helmet, and you can see movies forįree on your birthday, or if you are assisting someone in a wheelchair. IFS screens films in Muenzinger Auditorium, west of Folsom Football Stadium. Prices vary.įirst Person Cinema events screen in the VAC basement auditorium on select Mondays.Ĭelebrating Stan screens in ATLAS 100. When you watch these theatrical releases at home, the distributor will Virtual screenings from independent distributors support the IFS through revenue Know how many people are in your group by email.
We're happy to save seats for anyone traveling from afar-just let us Rare sell-outs, by arriving a bit early you're almost certainly guaranteed a IFS tickets are only available at the door on day of show. Teenage boys aren't alone in exploring their confused and unruly libidos.
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She's a well-established movie meme so is her sister (Beate Støfring), a coldhearted thing who swipes on the lip gloss before heading to battle. Repeated visual motifs play up the crushing sameness of rural life for resident teens, and Malin Bjørhovde, as Alma's best friend, has the morose stare and deadpan phrasings of glum goth dreamers across the globe - at least the ones in high-school comedies. The most effective - and lyrical - touch is the use of black-and-white stills to illustrate a few of Alma's bleaker daydreams. The film's editing and pacingĪre appealingly straightforward, not to say blunt, and the humor runs from dry to bone-dry to parched. Written and directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen from a novel by Olaug Nilssen, "Turn Me On, Dammit!" clocks in at 73 minutes, many of them devoted to graphic sexual daydreams starring approximately every other person Alma meets.
So goes Alma's story, a coming-of-age tale that's actually less concerned with any carnal loss of innocence - intercourse simply isn't the point - than her ostracism at school and the slower, stranger loss of her social bearings. They repeat this revelation, disbelieve it and disparage her. At a party, he exposes himself to her, poking her with the relevant body part. Lying in bed at night, Alma fantasizes about Artur (Matias Myren), a tall, inexpressive boy who lives down the road. She does this activity while lying on the kitchen floor, listening to phone sex, at least until Mom gets back from her job at the turnip factory. All the time.Īlma (Helene Bergsholm) does what many folks do when overtaken by such feelings at such moments when there are no other options. "Turn Me On, Dammit!" is a small Norwegian film about a small-town Norwegian 15-year-old with a small, if universal, problem: She's super horny.
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