Swedish director Lukas Moodysson went a little dark after
his light and free-wheeling feature debut Together,
one of my favorite movies from 2001. He came back last year with We Are the Best, another film similar in
tone and just as light on its feet. It’s amazing to see a director as
comfortable dealing with high energy electrifying characters as he is with
moody depression. In his latest he tells an adorable story, adapted from his
wife Coco’s comic book about three young girls in Stockholm in the early eighties
trying to stand out as punks. The punk movement was on its way out by then and
of course girls weren’t supposed to care. But Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) and her
best friend Klara (Mira Grosin) are the school’s outliers, two kids who spike
their short hair and dress alternatively. And they catch hell for it from their
peers.
