Wanna go back, back to 1999… specifically to feel all the things as a Swedish and/or British teen? Well then you’re in luck! On June 12th, we are offering up a double dose of nostalgic teen angst with back-to-back screenings of two films that hold very special places in our gay little hearts: Lukas Moodysson’s Show Me Love (aka Fucking Åmål) and Simon Shore’s Get Real.
Both films are somehow no longer teens: they are celebrating their 25th anniversaries. But they both still capture adolescence with a warmth and authenticity that remains a high bar in the history of movies about growing up queer. (Only one of them, however, can say they are responsible for inspiring the creation of the pop duo t.A.T.u., and that of course is Show Me Love).
Thank you Rachelle Lenihan for creating these stunning dual posters, both of which will be available for purchase at Paradise that night. And also that night, we will be celebrating 1999 with a special performance by the one and only @Manny Dingo (before the Get Real screening).
