Synopsis
We Are the Best! (Vi är bäst!, 2013) is a Swedish-Danish film directed by Lukas Moodysson — watch it online on iFILM. Stockholm, early 1980s. Everyone keeps saying punk is dead. Thirteen-year-olds Bobo and Klara have no instruments, no technique and no interest in being told what is over. They start a band anyway.
They recruit Hedvig — a quiet girl from the Christian youth group who can actually play guitar but has never heard the Clash. Together the three of them practice in a basement, fight about everything, make up, navigate first crushes and figure out what it means to care about something loudly. Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin and Liv LeMoyne play them with an unselfconscious naturalism that no amount of direction can fake. Moodysson adapted the screenplay from his wife Coco's graphic novel.
This is the rare coming-of-age film that trusts its audience to feel the point rather than have it spelled out. Anger as joy. Noise as identity. Stream We Are the Best! (2013) online on iFILM.
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