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We know new girl Maria (Frederikke Dahl Hansen) is trouble the second we see her necking absinthe straight from the bottle after school.

Before long, she’s driving a wedge between virginal Laura (Julie Anderson) and her best friend Christine (Emilie Kruse) with intoxicating tales of gender-bending and staying up past 10 on a homework night.

Charting the passage between late-adolescence and adulthood, this blisteringly realistic Danish coming-of-age drama is smarter than most and superbly performed – parental bust-ups, excruciating seductions and all.