Countless movies have been made about the sexual yearnings of teenage boys, but Norwegian filmmaker Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s “Turn Me On, Dammit!” is a rarity: a comedy about a teenage girl’s ...

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 ...

Skoddenheim, the setting for ‘Turn Me On,’ is revealed in a handful of static shots: Cozy, quiet, peaceful. But protagonist Alma (Helene Bergsholm) assures us that it is not. These images of the ...

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 ...

When we first meet Alma (Helene Bergsholm), the 15-year-old heroine of Turn Me On, Dammit!, she’s masturbating on her kitchen floor with the help of a phone-sex operator. In an American Pie movie, the ...

[Editor’s note: This review was originally published during Indiewire’s coverage of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. “Turn me on, dammit!” comes out in limited release this Friday, March 30.] Despite ...

Alma, the 15-year-old heroine of the Nordic import “Turn Me On, Dammit!,” is introduced pleasuring herself on the floor of her kitchen to the chatter of a phone sex operator. Instead of setting up a ...

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 ...

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 ...