THE MOON IS A GREEN CHEESE
[MÅNEN ÄR EN GRÖN OST]
An outlier, even in her broad and varied body of work, Mai Zetterling's only children's film was inspired by Goethe's theory of color. As a family holidays in the Stockholm Archipelago, their two young daughters fantasize about being adults representing different colors (red, yellow, blue, green, violet, black and indigo). The result is a visually lush, surrealist fever dream more akin to the experimental and psychedelic cinema of the era than to traditional family fare. A rarity that earned equal amounts of acclaim and distaste from contemporary viewers, the film was screened only twice before falling into obscurity. Zetterling's psychedelic curiosity is now being revived to its rightful place as a cult classic thanks to a new restoration by the Swedish Film Institute. DIR/SCR Mai Zetterling; PROD Lisbet Gabrielsson. Sweden, 1977, color, 72 min. In Swedish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
DCP restoration courtesy of the Swedish Film Institute.
Run Time: 72 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, June 20, 2025
Genre: Family, fantasy
