Mia and Frida (both 30-something) meet at their parent's engagement party. (Mia's father is marrying Frida's mother.) Mia reveals at the party that she is also engaged to be married to Tim. But as Mia and Frida come to know one another they slowly fall in love with each other. Well, "slowly" is perhaps not correct. Their first kiss was actually quite abrupt, and while Mia protested that she loved Tim, as portrayed in the movie her reluctance wasn't that firm. Overall I liked the movie. It dealt with the issue of love and explored what happens when two people suddenly and unexpectedly fall for one another and the complications that can arise as a result. I thought that Ruth Vega Fernandez (as Mia) and Liv Mjönes (as Frida) came across as natural and believable in their roles, and effectively portrayed both the passion and confusion that both felt as their relationship developed and they had to make decisions about how and if to move forward. They were very effective at making their characters likeable, so that the viewer cares about them rather than just watching. I thought the ending was appropriately ambiguous. While you move through the entire film expecting that Mia and Frida would end up together, the ending didn't state that explicitly and perhaps left it to the imagination of the viewetr as to whether they stayed together or whether the challenges of the relationship continued to keep them apart. All we know is that they found each other. What happened after that is a mystery. There were a couple of depictions of lesbian sex that came across to me as a little bit exploitive. It was natural enough in the depiction of the relationship but probably not absolutely essential to the story. It's also a swedish movie, with Swedish audio and English subtitles for those who don't enjoy that. But overall, this is a very good movie about two people that you grow quickly to care about, and for whom you wish happiness. (8/10)

Worth watching indeed... Done more smartly and with less drama than many eith similar story line. Not that it is not already seen, but life is life, we all make the same mistakes other oeople did and one more movie of a similar topic is nothing bad if it is done in a different manner. And this one way. For me, personally, this was an ok movie. And Robyn's song closing the movie just added aditional smile to my face.

I just saw this yesterday, and was left with mixed emotions. The film has some qualities, but it doesn't really follow through. As others have pointed out, the film follows a very simple love story, and there's nothing wrong with that as long as it's well-executed, but this wasn't. Throughout the film I never really cared about the relationship, mostly because it wasn't developed enough to be interesting, but it I also didn't find the characters to be likable. Most of the screen time with the two leads is them either staring at each other or having sex, most of which doesn't further the story what so ever.

It's all very Swedish-film-y, if you wanted to you could probably make a drinking game out of every time a character breaks a long tense silence with -Du..?, and you are constantly reminded of the upper-middle-class-ness of the characters. Another thing that bothered me is that EVERY SINGLE ONE the characters smoke. It's not that I think it's bad, there's just no point of it, it doesn't bring anything to the movie and it isn't really realistic either. The most memorable scene for me is when they see deer in the woods, but I actually think the film would be better without it. It doesn't fit, it just looks as if they've taken left-over footage from a LOKA commercial and put it in for effect.

Basically, it's OK, but not more. The acting is uneven and the entire movie becomes nauseatingly predictable and over-emotional towards the second half. If you're only going to see one Swedish film with lesbians 'fucking åmål' is far superior.