Turn Me On, Dammit! (2011)

I loved watching this movie. It gives the viewer a good perspective of how it's like for a teenager to live in a small village where hopes and dreams seem to be unreachable or only possible to achieve when living in a big city like Oslo. The changing of the body when growing up and dealing with new emotions and sexual feelings are well told and shown in this movie. The characters are realistic and the actors are fantastic! It has this slow and almost boring feel to it but combined with some smooth camera actions and some nice surprises your attention stays focused on the movie. To me movie is a piece of ART! This movie reminded me of 'Fucking Åmål' (1998) Lukas Moodysson

Fmovies: This girl did nothing wrong , but the society and parent always didn't understand and treat us as children know noting about life and should have upper authority to told us what to do what not . Every normal person on her age had this experience of exposing his sex desires ,but when they grow start denied it , For the movie time line were interesting and surprise sometimes the story goes on the way I didn't expect . I personally when I was on her state , I always having this fantasies, and felt guilty about it because religion (and the stupid society ) . But this girls was way more brave then me since confess to her mother saying ( I love sex ) , her mother reactions remind me many parent reaction what they discover their boy watching Porn , it's like they living in denial not accepting fact their children grow up , rarely we found a parent understand this and give their sons freedom and experience life bu themselves .

Alma is a fifteen year old girl living in Skoddeheimen, a fictional town in Norway, with her single mom and her best friend close by her side. Alma's biggest battle in her life is different from the battles we see in most young females' lives, especially in film, and it's with her raging hormones. She is beginning to become sexually awakened, and it becomes so consuming and so smothering that she can barely concentrate on anything else besides feeding her sexual desires.

And they are explicit. Writer/director Jannicke Systad Jacobsen doesn't turn Turn Me On, Dammit! into a shallow exploration of self-pleasure nor does she make it become so comedic that we laugh at the lead character, Alma (played perfectly by Helene Bergsholm) but more often wince and regard her story as depressing or possibly relatable. Her acts are not small, shoplifting pornographic magazines from the grocery store where she works and charging up a hefty bill from several phone sex lines. The opening scene even shows her in the middle of a masturbating act with the phone lying next to her.

The more definitive conflict in the film is the fact that Alma has mistaken an accidental gesture from her crush Artur (Matias Myren) as a sexually flirtatious act, bringing her embarrassment throughout her school. At home, her mother, played wonderfully by Henriette Steenstrup, becomes aware of the steps she takes to pleasure herself, but unable to process the ideas and the resources to help her combat this problem. It becomes so bad that Alma has begun to fantasize not only about being with her crush, but fantasizing about engaging in sex acts with other friends and even her boss. Again, these fantasies are not meant to provide the audience with comedy but poignant realism in the sexual awakening of young teenagers and how sometimes their thoughts are uncontrollable. At times we see the look in young Alma's eyes when she awakens from one of these fantasies and see she is not aroused by sometimes shocked and ashamed.

It was wise for Jacobsen to set her sights on a female lead. I've wearied of watching males in American films make choices for their own gain based on lust, greed, and hormones - also solely for comedic purposes. To see Turn Me On, Dammit! focus on the bitter side hormones play in the lives of teenagers in a raw form is intelligent and courageous. Had this been an American film, its subject matter most likely reduced to vast oversimplifications of the topic, the characters undeveloped and shortchanged, the depictions of steps for sexual gratification tasteless and filmed with smug undertones, and the aftertaste unremarkable and void of any truly impacting substance.

The film begins immediately, the plot and conflict turn up instantaneously, the characters quickly introduced and developed, and the film clocks in with seventy-one minutes well spent, not wasting a second in its goals to try and humanize the hormonal confusion and uncontrollable sexual tendencies of a young girl's pubescent beginnings. Turn Me On, Dammit! is something of a miracle. American cinema should begin, if not, continue to take notes from foreign cinema.

Starring: Helene Bergsholm, Henriette Steenstrup, Malin Bjørhovde, and Matias Myren. Directed by: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen.

Turn Me On, Dammit! fmovies. This movie was awesome! I don't know if I've seen anything like it, ever. So real. I totally recommend it, especially if you're a young female like me. It'll make SO much sense to you.

Boys might not be as hip to it, but who really cares LOL. Honestly, though, teenage sexuality {especially for females in whom it's widely abject-ified} and sexual expression can bring up so much emotional baggage that I was afraid to watch this film at first. I'm so glad that I did though, because yes, it did address loaded topics yada yada yada, but with a lighthearted and humorous delivery. Beautiful landscapes, additionally.

AWESOME. WATCH IT! :)

i saw this movie in nyc for the film festival. this is one beautiful movie. i wish i could describe the beautiful, daring way the filmmakers captured the story and the scenery. it is very hard to watch movies that have good acting but this film certainly does. i couldn't believe it when the director said these actors had never done this before. i was completely surprised. funny that she also said the leading girl had not told her parents yet! very good thing it was such a wonderful job of acting or she might have been busted.

i also loved the humor, especially from the mother. I thought it was great how the sisters and friends are so ridiculous and yet sad and delightful. great job very good! thank you for being a voice that has some unique style!i hope the film will be able to play in America? are there plans for that? anymore film festivals? i also hope there is a way that i can purchase this film.

I don't know what to say about Minnie Long's comment that Helene Bergsholm hadn't told her parents about the scenes she plays in this film. She obviously thinks she heard it.

As the US publicist, let me tell you what happened in fact: when Helene was offered the role of Alma, director Jannicke Systad Jacobsen met with her and her parents in a hotel to have them read over the entire script, and, as Bergsholm was underage at the time, to give their consent. As anybody who has worked on a film knows, the film could never have been released without a signed document from the parents. It is very serious business what you depict sexually with minors on screen. And in particular, somebody like Helene, who is not a professional actor.