‘There’s something abnormal about Alma,” says one character in this wry Scandinavian coming-of-age comedy. Mostly it’s because the gawky 15-year-old Alma (Helene Bergsholm) is trespassing on horny-male turf — plagued by X-rated fantasies, sticking her hand down her pants at every opportunity and as bad at chatting up the opposite sex as she is desperate to lose her virginity. Call it “Norwegian Pie.”
So deftly does “Turn Me On, Dammit!” approximate the experience of small-town teenagerhood that occasionally its slowness can frustrate. But director Jannicke Jacobsen’s clever, compassionate treatment of Alma’s romantic predicament involving Artur, her exhibitionist crush, comes from a perspective you virtually never see in American films: Adolescent girls obsess about sex, too, and not just how to fend it off.