{"id":1510,"date":"2024-07-11T12:11:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T12:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:47:14","slug":"lukas-moodysson-on-fucking-amal-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/lukas-moodysson-on-fucking-amal-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukas Moodysson on Fucking \u00c5m\u00e5l (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lukas Moodysson shares with Hugo his experiences of making <em>Fucking \u00c5m\u00e5l<\/em>, how a story close to his heart has taken on a life of its own and evolved into a queer classic. Reflecting on his journey as a filmmaker, the Swedish director discusses his career and the recurring themes at the core of his films: rebellion, loneliness, sincerity, and humor.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Get your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/movie\/fucking-amal\/\">\u2060tickets\u2060<\/a> for Fucking \u00c5m\u00e5l @ LAB111.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/celebratingcinema\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#ffc8dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/nl\/podcast\/celebrating-cinema\/id1558165273 noopener\"><strong>Subscribe to our podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify 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https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kiriko-320x480.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kiriko Mechanicus (film maker)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"1429\" src=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-scaled.jpeg 1707w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hugo-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, 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Director Lukas Moodysson joins Hugo to discuss what it meant to make a film this close to his own teenage experience, how its emotional directness has survived decades of cultural change, and why the themes at the core of his work \u2014 rebellion, loneliness, sincerity, humour \u2014 keep returning regardless of the form they arrive in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episodes","post_format-post-format-audio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}