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A Part of You

2024 film directed by Sigge Eklund

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ118387582
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A Part of You (Swedish: En del av dig) is a 2024 Swedish coming-of-age drama film directed by Sigge Eklund in his feature-length directorial debut and starring Felicia Maxime, Edvin Ryding and Zara Larsson (in her film debut).

The story follows Agnes, a 17-year-old Swedish teenager overshadowed by her charismatic and popular older sister Julia. Admiring Julia's qualities, Agnes begins to emulate her sister's life and social circle, leading to unforeseen challenges.

It was released by Netflix on May 31, 2024.

Plot

17-year-old student Agnes lives in a Swedish town with her family. She often feels overshadowed by her older sister, Julia, who has a fun personality, is popular, has tons of friends, and dates a boyfriend that every girl dreams of. Yet, Agnes deeply admires all these qualities in her sister. However, everything changes when Julia dies in a car accident after leaving a party and arguing with her boyfriend, Noel. From that point on, Agnes starts mingling with Julia's social circle, even going so far as to imitate her in every way from wearing the same clothes to pursuing a romantic relationship with Noel. This begins to stir rejection from those closest to Julia, including their own parents.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “A Part of You” is 2024 film directed by Sigge Eklund. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Part, film and directed, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2024-05-31. For this dossier, Part, film and directed is the immediate research focus.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q118387582. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from A Part of You” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.