Swedish writer/director Sanna Lenken describes her admirable debut feature as an attempt to “examine what it means to grow up as a young girl [and] be judged for the way you look and not who you are”. Rebecka Josephson is wonderfully engaging as Stella, the awkward adolescent who discovers with horror that her popular figure-skating sister Katja (Amy Deasismont) is hiding a growing eating disorder. Drawing on personal experience of anorexia, Lenken examines the conflicting web of intimacy and alienation that entraps both sisters and moves with humour and compassion toward resolutions born of honesty, insight and affection.
