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==Title== The original title of the film, ''Fucking Åmål'', refers to the girls' feelings about their small town: In a key scene, Elin shouts in desperation "''varför måste vi bo i fucking jävla kuk-Åmål?''" (which roughly translates to "why do we have to live in fucking bloody cock-Åmål?").<ref name="IndieWire" /> According to Moodysson, the problem with the original title started when the film was Sweden's candidate for the [[Academy Awards]], though eventually it was not chosen as a nominee.<ref name="VarietyOscar">{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/1998/film/news/swedes-love-oscar-1117488019/ |title=Swedes 'Love' Oscar |last=Edmunds |first=Marlene |date=November 1, 1998 |department=News |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=April 14, 2020 |archive-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523230701/https://variety.com/1998/film/news/swedes-love-oscar-1117488019/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Variety">{{cite journal |last=Griffiths |first=Gareth |url=https://www.academia.edu/12626126 |title=An Åmål State of Mind |journal=City + Cinema: Essays on the Specificity of Location in Film |year=2007 |access-date=May 27, 2015 |via=[[Academia.edu]]}}</ref><ref name="71stSubmissions">{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/pressreleases/98.11.19.html |title=45 Countries Submit Films for Oscar Consideration |date=November 19, 1998 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990219094343/http://www.oscars.org/pressreleases/98.11.19.html |archive-date=February 19, 1999 |url-status=unfit |access-date=October 20, 2015}}</ref> The Hollywood industry magazine ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' refused to run an advertisement for ''Fucking Åmål''. Thus, American distributor [[Strand Releasing]] asked for a new title. Moodysson took the new title from [[Show Me Love (Robyn song)|the song at the end of the film]], by [[Robyn]].<ref name="IndieWire" /> [[Film distributor|Distributors]] in other native English-speaking countries then followed suit. * {{langx|de|text=Raus aus Åmål|translation=Out of Åmål [i.e. leaving the town]}} * {{langx|es|Descubriendo el Amor}} ("Discovering Love") * {{langx|pt|Amigas de Colégio}} ("School Friends") * {{langx|cs|Láska je láska}} ("Love is Love") The Czech title is based on a [[Lucie Bílá]] song of the same name, which references homosexuality.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://f-amal.weisenbacher.com/fainterviews.htm |title=Fucking Amal-Show Me Love Interviews & Reviews |website=F-amal.Weisenbacher.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130427003924/http://f-amal.weisenbacher.com/fainterviews.htm |archive-date=27 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="IndieWire" /> * {{langx|ru|Покажи мне любовь}} ({{transliteration|ru|Pokazhi mne lyubov}}, "Show Me Love") * [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: ''F- Åmål''<ref name="IndieWire" /> * [[English language|English]]: ''Show Me Love''<ref name="IndieWire">{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/1999/10/interview-from-fucking-ml-to-show-me-love-scandinavian-smash-comes-to-america-82011/ |title=INTERVIEW: From "Fucking Åmål" to "Show Me Love": Scandinavian Smash Comes To America |last=Krach |first=Aaron |department=Interview |date=October 20, 1999 |website=[[IndieWire]] |access-date=April 14, 2020 |archive-date=24 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524102612/https://www.indiewire.com/1999/10/interview-from-fucking-ml-to-show-me-love-scandinavian-smash-comes-to-america-82011/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="VarietyReviews">{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/fucking-amal-1200455428/ |title=Fucking Amal |last=Rehlin |first=Gunnar |date=October 25, 1998 |department=Reviews |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=April 14, 2020 |archive-date=14 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314001024/https://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/fucking-amal-1200455428/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Canadian French|French (Canada)]]: ''Qui Aimes-Tu?'' ("Who do you love/like?")<ref>{{Citation |title=Show Me Love (1998) - Release info - IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150662/releaseinfo |access-date=2023-02-13 |archive-date=13 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213151849/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150662/releaseinfo/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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