Stars: Helene Bergsholm, Malin Bjørhovde, Beate Støfring, Matias Myren, Henriette Streenstrup | Based on the novel by Olaug Nilssen | Written and Directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
I’ve had something of a soft spot for coming-of-age stories ever since I read Jd Salinger’s perennial classic The Catcher In The Rye. Whether it’s the tough but good-hearted lessons of Stand By Me and Almost Famous or bleak but profound entries into adult like The 400 Blows and Kes, they usually contain a great deal that I can relate to on an emotional and thematic level, even if I never grew up in Paris, toured with a rock band or found a dead body in my youth. I did get drunk in a park once, but that’s about it. Realistically I think I still enjoy these stories because, despite having been legally adult for quite some time, I still haven...
I’ve had something of a soft spot for coming-of-age stories ever since I read Jd Salinger’s perennial classic The Catcher In The Rye. Whether it’s the tough but good-hearted lessons of Stand By Me and Almost Famous or bleak but profound entries into adult like The 400 Blows and Kes, they usually contain a great deal that I can relate to on an emotional and thematic level, even if I never grew up in Paris, toured with a rock band or found a dead body in my youth. I did get drunk in a park once, but that’s about it. Realistically I think I still enjoy these stories because, despite having been legally adult for quite some time, I still haven...
- 4/28/2013
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
An eye-catching title will set this apart from other films – mainly as a possible date-night film that will excite – but those for looking for something pornographic or blurring the boundaries of that will probably be disappointed.
This is a coming of age comedy more than anything else while dealing with a sensitive issue lightly. Fifteen year-old Alma (Helene Bergshom) is consumed with her desire for a relationship with Artur (Matias Myren) and a need for any sexual activity with most people she sees. Desire is all-consuming in her life, where the line between reality and fantasies is blurred until they come to their climax.
Comedic moments come from complete obscurity – the main fallout between Alma and Artur is one such bizarre moment. This then feeds the rest of the film its humour for you to chew on; whether it be an ironic moment or her fantasising about her boss in a cycling helmet.
This is a coming of age comedy more than anything else while dealing with a sensitive issue lightly. Fifteen year-old Alma (Helene Bergshom) is consumed with her desire for a relationship with Artur (Matias Myren) and a need for any sexual activity with most people she sees. Desire is all-consuming in her life, where the line between reality and fantasies is blurred until they come to their climax.
Comedic moments come from complete obscurity – the main fallout between Alma and Artur is one such bizarre moment. This then feeds the rest of the film its humour for you to chew on; whether it be an ironic moment or her fantasising about her boss in a cycling helmet.
- 3/26/2013
- by Ashley Norris
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Turn Me On Dammit! opens with the film’s 15-year old protagonist lying on the floor listening to phone sex and masturbating while the family dog looks on in puzzlement and Mom is about to walk through the front door. It may seem like a scene out of Porkys or American Pie, and while there’s been a whole genre of movies dedicated to the healthy sexual interests of the horny teenage boy, this new Norwegian film shows sex-crazed hormonal development and carnal fantasies from a young girl’s perspective.
Alma (Helene Bergsholm) is a teen trapped in Skoddenheim, a boring rural burg where everything, according to her opening voice-over, is “stupid”. and she and her friends give its welcoming highway sign the finger every time they pass on their school bus. She’s lonely and horny for a hunky classmate Artur (Matias Myren), who visits her in her many sexual fantasies,...
Alma (Helene Bergsholm) is a teen trapped in Skoddenheim, a boring rural burg where everything, according to her opening voice-over, is “stupid”. and she and her friends give its welcoming highway sign the finger every time they pass on their school bus. She’s lonely and horny for a hunky classmate Artur (Matias Myren), who visits her in her many sexual fantasies,...
- 7/6/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The cinemascape is so overcrowded with tales of teenaged boys’ sexual awakenings -- of the rage of their adolescent horniness and the despair that it will ever be mollified, of the broad-spectrum suckitude of being no longer a child yet not quite an adult -- that even the best of these films feel tired and obvious. Is there nothing new to say in an overplayed subgenre? Perhaps: Turn Me On, Dammit! (Få meg på, for faen) is almost shocking in how it depicts 15-year-old Alma’s all-consuming confusion, anxiety, and sexual desperation: with a candid carnality the likes of which is de rigueur for the horny-boy subgenre, but is entirely absent from film when it comes to depicting the trials of adolescent girls. (There simply is no such a thing as the horny-girl subgenre.) Thoughts are romance are not alien to Alma (played with a refreshing vulgarity by Helene Bergsholm) -- she’s in love,...
- 6/27/2012
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
With all of the stories, movies, and television episodes dedicated to the horny teenage male, it's a bit of an understatement to say that the topic is well-covered. Regrettably, there's still a nasty double-standard in regards to the population of sexual-minded females -- their desires aren't looked at with the same respect that males get in those various forms of media, and that’s if they’re even represented at all. Better late than never, "Turn Me On, Dammit!" attempts to fill that void by not only having its main protagonist seemingly fueled by coitus, but by also targeting society's uneven treatment of sexual matters between boys and girls. Director Jannicke Systad Jacobson generally keeps things fresh and playful in a Godardian way, fooling with the plot's thread by the way of the “unreliable narrator” device and several instances that acknowledge the medium itself. But eventually the fun comes to an end,...
- 3/30/2012
- by Christopher Bell
- The Playlist
If the title of Jannicke Systad Jacobsen‘s Turn Me On, Dammit! has you expecting a raunchy comedy of flamboyant zest, it may not hurt to dial back your expectations a bit. We do get no less than two up-close-and-personal looks at Artur’s (Matias Myren) Dirk Diggler, and I’d be lying if I said our introduction to 15-year-old Alma (Helene Bergsholm) — the outright image of her exploring her pants under the tutelage of a phone-sex worker named “Stig” — is something you see at the movies every day.
But Jacobsen, working from her own adaptation of an Olaug Nilssen novel, approaches the material with a Norwegian bite that keeps the on-screen stuff at a sleety distance. What we’re meant to laugh out loud at like rowdy, foolish goons in a Judd Apatow movie plays severely differently here, and that generally gives the film a more interesting aura than...
But Jacobsen, working from her own adaptation of an Olaug Nilssen novel, approaches the material with a Norwegian bite that keeps the on-screen stuff at a sleety distance. What we’re meant to laugh out loud at like rowdy, foolish goons in a Judd Apatow movie plays severely differently here, and that generally gives the film a more interesting aura than...
- 3/30/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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