#1162b: ZETTERLING, Mai: Night Games (1966)
ZETTERLING, Mai (Sweden)
Night Games [1966]
Director/Writers
With Zetterling from 1984.
From the production and premiere of Night Games.
Night Games [1966]
Spine #1162b
Blu-ray
Outrageous and explosively controversial (the Venice Film Festival refused to screen it publicly, while John Waters has called it his favorite film), Mai Zetterling’s second feature is a blazing psychosexual odyssey with heaving Freudian flourishes. On the eve of his marriage to his fiancée (Lena Brundin), Jan (Keve Hjelm) returns to his childhood home—a sprawling estate stuffed with antiques—where he relives his memories of his beautiful, decadent, mercurial mother (Ingrid Thulin) and finds himself forced to confront his unresolved Oedipal longings. Seamlessly interweaving past and present, carnivalesque camp and potent symbolism, Night Games functions as both a feverishly perverse family portrait and a serious statement on the tormented soul of a modern Europe reckoning with the demons of its past.
105 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 novel of the same name by Mai Zetterling.
Screenplay by Zetterling and David Hughes.
Zetterling was 41 when she directed Night Games.
Screenplay by Zetterling and David Hughes.
Zetterling was 41 when she directed Night Games.
The Film
a
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.
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.
Swedish television footage
Extras Rating (0-40):
By Spine #
39
60 + 39 =By Spine #
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