Irish Film Institute -WE ARE THE BEST!

WE ARE THE BEST!

Director: LUKAS MOODYSSON

102 minutes, Sweden, 2013, Subtitled, Colour, D-Cinema


Tickets are on sale now. This film closes on Thursday, April 24th.

Introverted Bobo and her garrulous, extrovert friend Klara are misfits at their school, and still believe punk’s not dead in 1982 Sweden. After accidentally starting a band, they commit to the idea, and recruit fellow outsider Hedvig, a devout Christian and classically-trained guitarist. The girls, all about 13, and at slightly but significantly different levels of emotional maturity, bond, argue, fall apart, and come back together in ways that will be familiar to audiences, and seeing them find themselves through music is another idea bound to resonate.

After his more experimental films of recent years, director Lukas Moodysson here returns to the looser, warm-hearted tone and style of his earlier work, particularly Fucking Åmål (1998) and Together (2000), adapting his wife Coco’s graphic novel to create this absolute delight. (Notes by Kevin Coyne.)

Winner of Best Actress (joint best actress for Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne) at the Dublin Film Critics Circle at JDIFF 2014. The Dublin Film Critics Circle jury critic Brogen Hayes explains in her blog post why three young actresses stood out in We Are The Best, earning them the Best Actress gong at JDIFF 2014.

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