SHOW ME LOVE (Fucking Åmål) (Lukas Moodysson, 1998) 7:30pm

Lukas Moodysson's debut film, "Show Me Love", combines the light-hearted spryness of a teenage romp with the stylistic maturity that makes the Swedish Moodysson arguably the most interesting filmmaker today. This film, about an awkward and alienated girl and her quest to capture the heart of the high school beauty queen, is less about underage lesbianism than it is about the suffocating homogeneity of adolescence and the vertiginous experience of self-exposure. Moodysson's direction is superb, and the camera's way of capturing the characters, and the outstanding performances behind them, lend this film a humanist tenderness not found in contemporary cinema. Never have I, a boy from Atlanta, found a more apt and familiar representation of adolescent experience than in these two girls' plight in a small town in the Swedish boondocks. A great balance of the light and heavy, this is a truly remarkable film.

Hunter Vaughan (Magdalen Film Soc Committee)

AMELIE (Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le) (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001), 9:20pm

This film requires little introduction, regarded by many as a modern classic. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film tells the story of Amelie, a young waitress working in a small Parisian café. Despite being young and naive, she already has a well developed sense of fairness and justice, and decides to go on a crusade of her own to help those around her find happiness. Along the way she finds she runs-into a mysterious passport photo collector, who may be the key to her own happiness. Definitely a feel good film, a fable of sorts, not quite the real world but such a delightful fantasy with its unique mixture of quirkiness and joie de vivre that you barely notice.

Anton Baker (Magdalen Film Soc President)