Loving Couples
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.
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Cast
- Harriet Andersson
- Agda
- Gunnel Lindblom
- Adèle Holmström
- Gio Petré
- Angela
- Anita Björk
- Petra
- Gunnar Björnstrand
- Dr. Jacob Lewin
- Jan Malmsjö
- Stellan
- Heinz Hopf
- Lt. Bernhard Landborg
- Anja Boman
- Stanny
- Eva Dahlbeck
- Mrs. Landborg
- Hans Strååt
- Thomas Möller
- Bengt Brunskog
- Tord Holmström
Credits
- Director
- Mai Zetterling
- Screenplay by
- Mai Zetterling
- Screenplay by
- David Hughes
- Based on the book Fröknarna von Pahlen (The Misses von Pahlen) by
- Agnes von Krusenstjerna
- Produced by
- Göran Lindgren
- Cinematographer
- Sven Nykvist
- Music
- Roger Wallis
- Editor
- Paul Davies
- Production designer
- Jan Boleslaw
- Costume designer
- Birgitta Hahn
- Assistant director
- Bertil Ohlsson
- Assistant director
- Lena Malmsjö
- Translation
- Marianne Höök
- Continuity
- Katinka Faragó
A scene from Loving Couples
