LUKAS MOODYSSON, a Swedish poet and novelist, made his debut as a film screenwriter-director in 1998 with “Show Me Love”—a lesbian teenage romance that beat Abdellatif Kechiche’s “Blue Is The Warmest Colour” by 15 years. Ingmar Bergman pronounced it “a young master’s first masterpiece”. Mr Moodysson’s second masterpiece came out two years later. “Together”, a piquant comedy drama about Stockholm commune life in the 1970s, was universally acclaimed for its humanity and wry humour. Since then, though, Mr Moodysson’s films have had to make do with a more mixed response. “Lilya 4-ever”, “A Hole In My Heart” and “Container” were increasingly gruelling and abstract, and while Mr Moodysson veered in a more mainstream direction in 2009 with his anti-globalisation polemic, “Mammoth”, no one would call it a masterpiece. His new film is a different matter. A worthy follow-up to his first two hits, “We Are The Best!” is the joyous, acutely observed story of three adolescent schoolgirls who form a punk band in Stockholm in 1982.Mr Moodysson talked to The Economist about making a deliberately “happy” film.
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