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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. From left: Malin Bjorhovde, Helene Bergsholm and Beate Stofring in "Turn Me On, Dammit!" New Yorker Films photo Alma (Helene ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 debut feature (based on Olaug Nilssen’s 2005 novel) introduces its 15-year-old protagonist Alma (Helene Bergsholm) with her hand down her pants ...

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 ...

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.

From left: Malin Bjorhovde, Helene Bergsholm and Beate Stofring in "Turn Me On, Dammit!" New Yorker Films photo Alma (Helene Bergsholm) is bored, frustrated and dead set on getting out of the ...

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 ...

Since the early days of Donald Trump’s political rise, mental health experts have argued over the ethics of diagnosing the once-and-wannabe-again POTUS from a distance. There is one stark precedent, ...