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Night Games (Swedish: Nattlek) is a 1966 Swedish movie directed by Mai Zetterling and starring Ingrid Thulin. The film premiered at the 27th Venice International Film Festival where it was considered so controversial that it was shown to the jury in private.
Night Games: Directed by Mai Zetterling. With Ingrid Thulin, Keve Hjelm, Lena Brundin, Jörgen Lindström. The story about a man who's trying to get rid of his memories from his past. He grew up in an upper-class family in a castle and now revisits the castle with his fiancee.
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- Mai Zetterling
- 1966-09-12
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.
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Directed by Mai Zetterling. A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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Night Games. 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.
A young man, bored with his bourgeois surroundings, drives around aimlessly looking for new experiences -- which he finally finds when he and a friend pick up two high-class prostitutes who teach them a few new tricks.
One month after Ingmar Bergman’s Persona was released in Sweden, Night Games cheekily put the same child actor in the throes of maternal attachment. Immersed in the son’s neuroses, Mai Zetterling creates a phenomenal psychodrama of debauched sexuality—one that counts John Waters among its fans!
