I would love this movie to become the Risky Business or Pump Up the Volume for a generation of small-town Norwegian teens raised on Internet pornography. Even with its opening scene of a nubile young ...

Alma (Helene Bergsholm), age 15, lives in the desolate town of Skoddeheimen, a place anyone who grew up in rural Vermont will instantly recognize as death to all teenagers’ spirits. She opens the film ...

I can't express how difficult it was to come up with a non-exploitative headline for this story. The fact is, it's difficult to sum up the plot of Turn Me On, Dammit! without at some point using the ...

Venerable New Yorker Films is back in the indie distribution game. Their next 2012 entry is Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s sexually frank 76-minute coming-of-age comedy, “Turn Me On, Dammit!,” laced with ...

A frank portrayal of adolescent eroticism, female division, which seldom gets portrayed onscreen at all, much less at the affectionately candid level explored here, the film is set in a ...

Set in the Norwegian boonies, Jannicke Systad Jacobsen's first fiction feature (based on Olaug Nilssen's 2005 novel) introduces its 15-year-old protagonist Alma (Helene Bergsholm) with her hand down ...

More stories by Nigel M. What’s Next: “I’m writing my next script, which is an original idea,” Jacobsen told Indiewire from Norway. “It’s a tragic comic love story about people trying to be grownups.

Fifteen-year-old Alma just might be the horniest person in Norway. She rings up exorbitant phone sex bills when her mom, a single parent, is out of the house. And she rides rolls of coins when she ...

In this sly Norwegian comedy, a dreamy, hormonal teen girl starts swooning for everything in sight, dialing up sex hotlines and keeping her mother awake with her constant self-pleasuring. Charming and ...

Fifteen-year-old Alma (Helene Bergsholm) is so desperately horny she distracts herself from her dull cashier’s job by rocking back and forth on a roll of coins, her reverie interrupted only when she’s ...