#1162a: ZETTERLING, Mai: Loving Couples (1964)
ZETTERLING, Mai (Sweden)
Loving Couples [1964]
Director/Writers
Loving Couples [1964]
Spine #1162a
Blu-ray
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 that, 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.
118 minutes
Black and White
Monaural
in Swedish
1:66:1
Criterion Release 2022
Black and White
Monaural
in Swedish
1:66:1
Criterion Release 2022
Based on the book Fröknarna von Pahlen (The Misses von Pahlen) by Agnes von Krusenstjerna.
Screenplay by Mai Zetterling and David Hughes.
Zetterling was 39 when she directed Loving Couples.
Screenplay by Mai Zetterling and David Hughes.
Zetterling was 39 when she directed Loving Couples.
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Thirty-six page booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Mariah Larsson.
Commentary
None.
Interview 1
With author Alicia Malone.
Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress
1989 documentary on Zetterling, featuring interviews with the director; her coscreenwriter Hughes; and actors Harriet Andersson, Thulin, Bibi Andersson, and Lindblom.
Interview 2
With Zetterling from 1984.
Extras Rating (0-40):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Thirty-six page booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Mariah Larsson.
Commentary
None.
Interview 1
With author Alicia Malone.
Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress
1989 documentary on Zetterling, featuring interviews with the director; her coscreenwriter Hughes; and actors Harriet Andersson, Thulin, Bibi Andersson, and Lindblom.
Interview 2
With Zetterling from 1984.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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