15 year old Tanja (played by lovely Rita Kvist) has problems with her family, her friends, and adjusting to a new place. The film portrays nicely how hard it can be to be a young girl when everything changes around you. Some of the roles are a bit overplayed, and some of the situations did not convince me too much. But a nice movie overall, specially for the target group (young girls). I give it 6/10.
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On the positive side, Rita Kvist...
stig-1229 March 2001
I don't mind seeing naked girls. In fact; I enjoy seeing naked girls. So why don't I love Lime, a film where the main character Tanja, played by Rita Kvist- one of the cutest girls in Norway, undresses in every second scene?
The answer is bad directing. The subject of the movie is quite interesting, although not very original. A young girl is forced to leave her friends in the city because her mother gets a job in the countryside. But the director spoils what could have been a good movie by focusing way to much on her young actress' body. What is for example the point in the scene from the girls locker room? And do we have to see every time Tanja changes her clothes? It's a film, not Big Brother. There are also several other scenes that could have been done a lot better.
Having said that, I would like to give credit to Rita Kvist. Although only 16 years old, she is a great talent and gives a good performance in this movie. Actually she's the only thing that saves this movie from being killed by my butcher knife. But it still ends up badly wounded. I'll give it 3/10.
The answer is bad directing. The subject of the movie is quite interesting, although not very original. A young girl is forced to leave her friends in the city because her mother gets a job in the countryside. But the director spoils what could have been a good movie by focusing way to much on her young actress' body. What is for example the point in the scene from the girls locker room? And do we have to see every time Tanja changes her clothes? It's a film, not Big Brother. There are also several other scenes that could have been done a lot better.
Having said that, I would like to give credit to Rita Kvist. Although only 16 years old, she is a great talent and gives a good performance in this movie. Actually she's the only thing that saves this movie from being killed by my butcher knife. But it still ends up badly wounded. I'll give it 3/10.
Worth a watch
batik_jenny9 April 2002
I saw this movie at the Stockholm Filmfestival Junior and being 16 I am actually too old for it. But I still enjoyed this nice little movie. My only wish is that I had seen this when I was around 13 or something. I would've certainly had easier to identify with Tanja then. As it is now, I feel more like her much wiser older sister.
I agree with the comments written below. Why the HELL did they have to show Tanja naked ALL the time? The showerscene was a complete waste of time and all those changings of clothes; why!?! I mean, come on, she is only 15, her body isn't really the main interest here. And I might also add that my company, a male friend, agreed with me.
The actors are very good indeed, but it might be so that I only think so because I don't speak their language. Anyway it's a nice peace about growing up.
I agree with the comments written below. Why the HELL did they have to show Tanja naked ALL the time? The showerscene was a complete waste of time and all those changings of clothes; why!?! I mean, come on, she is only 15, her body isn't really the main interest here. And I might also add that my company, a male friend, agreed with me.
The actors are very good indeed, but it might be so that I only think so because I don't speak their language. Anyway it's a nice peace about growing up.
Lovely actress but...
andreafuma6 April 2006
Warning: Spoilers
I saw Lime last night and I was quite disappointed. It's hard to believe that this movie tops 40euro on eBay auctions. I bought it for 10euro and I wish I hadn't.
I can't speak Norwegian and I missed a big part of it, but it's the kind of movie you can anyway understand the overall sense... unless you need a brain transplant.
The actress is lovely but the aura of a "sexy" movie built around Lime is totally false - no nude sequences. It's clearly not a movie for voyeurs because the actress is very modest and the film director respects it. Also the infamous shower scene is quite chaste and everything is let to the viewver's imagination... I've much preferred *beep* Amal" where the plot is much more believable.
I can't speak Norwegian and I missed a big part of it, but it's the kind of movie you can anyway understand the overall sense... unless you need a brain transplant.
The actress is lovely but the aura of a "sexy" movie built around Lime is totally false - no nude sequences. It's clearly not a movie for voyeurs because the actress is very modest and the film director respects it. Also the infamous shower scene is quite chaste and everything is let to the viewver's imagination... I've much preferred *beep* Amal" where the plot is much more believable.
Irresistibly colorful dream world
sleepsev20 April 2002
The world portrayed in 'Lime' is too beautiful to be real, yet it is too beautiful for me to resist. I give this movie 10/10 mostly because of its choice of music, and also because of its beautiful colors, its haunting black and white scenes, its cinematography, its editing, the performance of Rita Kvist, and its tremendous impact on my emotions.
There are many scenes that I like in 'Lime', including the scenes when the camera focuses on an insect at the window, when Tanja makes her own dress, when she imagines her mother dancing hauntingly, the scene in the forest, and the scene about a wolf. These scenes are not only beautifully shot, but they are also strangely powerful. The heightened colors, the contrast between color scenes and black-and-white scenes, and the appropriate pace of editing lend this movie great excitement, while the story itself is not as exciting.
Giving it 10/10 means I love it so much though I think it still has some flaws. While the role of Tanja is so impressive and gives Kvist a great chance to show her talent, the supporting characters are somehow not fully developed, including her friend, her ex-boyfriend, her new boyfriend, her little brother, her new stepfather, and particularly her mother. 'Lime' chooses to focus only on Tanja, and that makes it different from other recent movies about single mother-teenage daughter in countryside, including 'Tumbleweeds' and 'La Spagnola'.
The second half of this movie is not as intense as the first half, and I have to admit I'm not satisfied with this kind of ending. Thanks to its music, 'Lime' is now one of my most favorite films about teenagers, but because of its possible-but-lackluster resolution, the place for my most favorite teenage film still belongs to 'Busu' by Jun Ichikawa. Though both two films are about troubled teenage girls and are tremendously powerful, 'Busu' gives a feeling of a 'real world', while 'Lime' gives a vividly colorful picture of a 'dream world'. 'Lime', for me, is perfect as a way to escape from reality. Yes, I'm one of those people who wish our own life should have been like Tanja's.
There are many scenes that I like in 'Lime', including the scenes when the camera focuses on an insect at the window, when Tanja makes her own dress, when she imagines her mother dancing hauntingly, the scene in the forest, and the scene about a wolf. These scenes are not only beautifully shot, but they are also strangely powerful. The heightened colors, the contrast between color scenes and black-and-white scenes, and the appropriate pace of editing lend this movie great excitement, while the story itself is not as exciting.
Giving it 10/10 means I love it so much though I think it still has some flaws. While the role of Tanja is so impressive and gives Kvist a great chance to show her talent, the supporting characters are somehow not fully developed, including her friend, her ex-boyfriend, her new boyfriend, her little brother, her new stepfather, and particularly her mother. 'Lime' chooses to focus only on Tanja, and that makes it different from other recent movies about single mother-teenage daughter in countryside, including 'Tumbleweeds' and 'La Spagnola'.
The second half of this movie is not as intense as the first half, and I have to admit I'm not satisfied with this kind of ending. Thanks to its music, 'Lime' is now one of my most favorite films about teenagers, but because of its possible-but-lackluster resolution, the place for my most favorite teenage film still belongs to 'Busu' by Jun Ichikawa. Though both two films are about troubled teenage girls and are tremendously powerful, 'Busu' gives a feeling of a 'real world', while 'Lime' gives a vividly colorful picture of a 'dream world'. 'Lime', for me, is perfect as a way to escape from reality. Yes, I'm one of those people who wish our own life should have been like Tanja's.
Nice movie without all the normal teen nonsense
freeintexas90327 June 2005
Lime is a film about growing up when you least expect it. Tanya is almost 15 with nude scenes in this movie (yes nude), angry and unhappy, she's in love with another girl Henrik 13, and now she has to move the very same day she gets a job as a drummer in Henrik's band, Limbo.
It really isn't much fun having to leave behind everything you care about nor is it much fun having a mother who keeps changing her boyfriends. In fact, it just isn't good being 15 and being forced to abandon the things that really matter in life - love, friends and music. Unless you find a way to run away from it all, but that takes courage. For a collector it is a must have, if you can rent it that is fine also but see this film please.
It really isn't much fun having to leave behind everything you care about nor is it much fun having a mother who keeps changing her boyfriends. In fact, it just isn't good being 15 and being forced to abandon the things that really matter in life - love, friends and music. Unless you find a way to run away from it all, but that takes courage. For a collector it is a must have, if you can rent it that is fine also but see this film please.
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