Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
A very welcome return from Moodysson. The music is Wyld Stallions-grade, but the charm and spirit of the three girls will have you moshing in your seat.
This is a refreshingly bullshit-free look at life as a 13-year-old misfit, with all the volcanic and silly passions that emerge. And yes, it sails through the Bechdel test.
A joyful bubble you’ll want to re-enter.
It’s a delight from start to finish.
It's an irrepressible joy from start to finish. Think School of Rock, without adult supervision.
What makes it so special is its mix of barbed humour, tenderness and its Adrian Mole-like insights into what teenage years are really like.
There is a Bugsy Malone feel to We Are the Best!, a spectacle of children playing at being adults, and doing it inevitably badly. But not as badly as the actual grownups.
We Are the Best! is brisk, authentically snotty stuff, with nice barbs at the expense of self-indulgent ex-hippy parents, lumbering heavy metallists and pompous youth workers.
Mira Grosin: school, football...and a movie on the side
Lukas Moodysson
General release. Check local listings for show times.