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    Night Games

    Mai Zetterling 1966 Sweden Fiction b/w 105min Swedish DCP
    A self-indulgent heiress houses a coterie of outsiders who party as she gives birth in a gigantic gown. Her son Jan, aged around ten, lounges around the estate and escapes reality through games with a dear old aunt. He tries to lure his mother’s affection through cross-dressing and sexual desire. As an adult, Jan is trapped in his neuroses and unable to grow up. The film was considered too controversial back then, causing Venice Film Festival chose to screen the film to the jury in private. The film also caused Shirley Temple to resign from the board of the San Francisco Film Festival. John Waters once praised that the supremely surprising film as “one of the first to feature incredibly realistic vomiting.”

    Director

    Mai Zetterling

    Mai ZETTERLING is Swedish director and actress. It was in SJÖBERG's Torment (1944) with its screenplay by Ingmar BERGMAN that she achieved her acting breakthrough before she was offered lm parts in the UK and began her international acting and directing career. With her remarkable second career in directing, she was one of the few female directors in the 1960s and 70s. She often served as creative producer for her own lms and wrote her own screenplays. Most of them dealt explicitly with female sexuality and focused on the role of women in society.

    Mai Zetterling

    1990 Love at First Sight. Sunday Pursuit

    1986 Betongmormor

    1986 Amorosa

    1982 Love

    1982 Scrubbers

    1981 Of Seals and Men

    1978 Stockholm

    1977 Månen är en grön ost

    1975 We Have Many Names

    1973 Visions of Eight

    1968 The Girls

    1968 Dr. Glas

    1966 Night Games

    1966 Testfilm Mai Zetterling Island

    1964 Loving Couples

    1962 The War Game

    Director: Mai Zetterling

    Producer: Göran Lindgren

    Screenplay: Mai Zetterling, David Hughes

    Swedish Film Institute

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