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Elisabeth and John John are raised in the same city, yet they live light years apart, separated economically, socially and culturally. That is until the day they start in the same high school class.
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Directed by Alexis Almström
Mustapha Aarab
Elsa Öhrn
Magnus Krepper
Marika Lagercrantz
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Albin Grenholm
Jonay Pineda SkallakVideos
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CinemaSerfOct 15, 2026
"JJ" (Mustapha Aarab) is a decent enough kid who lives with his mum and her slightly thuggish policeman boyfriend, and who hangs out with petty criminal "Sluggo" (Jonay Pineda Skallak) for whom he usually quite deftly handles some "merchandise". On the other side of their city dwells "Elisabeth" (Elsa Öhrn). Her family live in a luxurious home overlooking the water but it is barely any more functional than his. When high school throws the pair together, he takes an immediate… Read more
shine to her but in what universe might she ever reciprocate? Meantime, after an ill-considered attempt to impress her, he manages to get themselves robbed at knife-point and to upset things with his friend putting lives in jeopardy too. There is very little original here, nor does any of the acting really kick the film into gear. Instead, it's a slightly procedural teenage drama with it's typical share of angst, family dysfunction and hormones before an ending that, to be fair, isn't quite what it could have been had we continued to join the dots as expected. It passes the time easily enough, and it does cast a little shadow on the more traditional image of Swedish life, but I doubt that you'll ever remember it.