Sweet, brave Alma isn’t out to frighten the sheep she’s just unashamed to admit that girls get horny too. Our first glimpse of Alma (Helene Bergsholm), the hormonal 15-year-old heroine of Turn Me On, Dammit, is from above, as she masturbates ecstatically on her living-room floor. Systad Jacobsen is alive to the cruelties and quirks of adolescence - Alma’s best friend, Sara (Malin Bjorhovde), tests the outside world by writing innocent letters to death-row inmates in Texas - and especially the sexual double standard.
With its soft, bleached images and occasional detours into black-and-white stills, “Turn Me On,” set in an unspecified recent past, has a gentle oddness as unforced as its performances and as inoffensive as its dialogue. But it’s his penis that makes first contact, thrust unceremoniously against Alma’s leg one day outside a village dance and when Alma excitedly informs her friends of the crude advance, it is she who pays the social price. Stuck in a back-of-beyond village where sheep outnumber humans, Alma dreams of escape from a turnip-factory future and crushes hard on Artur (Matias Myren), a dreamy choirboy whose eyes secretly follow her around school. Deft use of songs, notably by Kings of Convenience and Franz Is Dead, enhances the film’s emotional impact.Establishing its affectionately deadpan tone from the get-go, Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s low-key Norwegian comedy takes coming-of-age literally. It's raw riveting and just perfectly written. This Norwegian teen drama focuses on all the struggles we go through during hormonal changes but are to afraid to discuss. For all its frustrated ardor, the film is actually quite lovely as well as honest, treating its young characters with the kind of respect to which Hollywood teen movies seem severely allergic. Fresh and original, Turn Me On, Dammit is a great dark comedy from the foreign market. Marianne Bakke, “Turn Me On, Goddammit” has a cool palette and a deceptively rustic tone that tempers the hot-blooded undercurrent running through the story. In this hilariously frank and surprisingly touching comedy, teenager Alma hates the small town in Norway where she lives, and she spends. She looks real if a little bit old for the role.
She has the advantage and disadvantage of being a nobody. The lead is 18 year old newcomer Helene Bergsholm. Shot in a very straightforward and somehow ironic fashion by d.p. In small town Norway, 15-year-old Alma is obsessed with sex and approaches classmate Artur which leads to her being ostracized. Even her last remaining friend, Sara, who writes letters to death-row inmates in Texas, is giving Alma a wide berth. Ostracized and horny, the girl’s social fate seems sealed. In fact, the border between Alma’s real and unreal is so porous that when the crucial act occurs, we’re not entirely sure she isn’t on one of her trips to La-La-heimen.Īlma’s big mistake is mentioning what Artur did at a party he denies it, and Sara’s lip gloss-addicted sister, Ingrid (Beate Stoefring), who likes Artur, too, begins a smear campaign against the by-now-adorable Alma. Helmer Jannicke Systad Jacobsen interweaves Alma’s fantasies, which involve just about anyone, with her day-to-day routine around the curiously named Skoddeheimen and her floundering flirtations with a Joseph Gordon-Levitt look-alike named Artur (Matias Myren).
The paramount issue, however, is Alma’s burgeoning lust: Her mother (Henriette Steenstrup) nearly catches her masturbating on the kitchen floor (the one witness, Alma’s dog, is hilarious) Mom nearly chokes when she gets the bill for the phone-sex line Alma calls, frequently enough that they know her by name. Its unusual setting aside, “Turn Me On, Goddammit” concerns itself with a number of the usual teen-movie tropes, including the loyalty of best friends, the cruelty of adolescence and the torture inflicted on the young by their parents. Pic is set in a less-than-vibrant burg of western Norway that everyone seems to hate Alma and her pal Sara (Malin Bjoerhovde) ritually flip off the sign that bears its name, Skoddeheimen, each time their school bus passes it.
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