LOVING COUPLES (1964)
Special Features: Intro by Stefan Hansen, Cultural Counselor, Embassy of Sweden on May 27
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The title of Mai Zetterling’s boldly iconoclastic debut feature — adapted from a cycle of seven novels by the provocative feminist writer Agnes von Krusenstjerna — drips with irony. In 1915, three pregnant women from varying social backgrounds (Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom and Gio Petré) enter a maternity ward. Cue a swirl of perspective-shifting flashbacks, with searing psychological insight, illuminate the divergent yet interconnected experiences that brought them there — and that came to a head during one lavish, debauched Midsommar celebration. Wildly subversive in its treatment of sexuality, gender, class, religion, marriage and motherhood, LOVING COUPLES is as electrifying a first feature as any in cinema history, announcing the arrival of an uncompromising artist in pursuit of raw emotional truth. (Note courtesy of Janus Films.) DIR/SCR Mai Zetterling; SCR David Hughes, from the novel by Agnes von Krusenstjerna; PROD Göran Lindgren, Gösta Petersson, Rune Waldekranz. Sweden, 1964, b&w, 118 min. In Swedish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Co-presented with the Embassy of Sweden.
Also part of WorldPride on Screen.
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, May 23, 2025
Genre: Drama, romance