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. 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.
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Cast
- Ingrid Thulin
- Irene
- Keve Hjelm
- Jan
- Jörgen Lindström
- Young Jan
- Lena Brundin
- Mariana
- Naima Wifstrand
- Astrid
- Monica Zetterlund
- Lotten
- Lauritz Falk
- Bruno
- Rune Lindström
- Albin
- Christian Bratt
- Erland
- Lissi Alandh
- Melissa
Credits
- Director
- Mai Zetterling
- Screenplay by
- Mai Zetterling
- Screenplay by
- David Hughes
- Based on the novel of the same name by
- Mai Zetterling
- Produced by
- Göran Lindgren
- Director of photography
- Rune Ericson
- Music
- Jan Johansson
- Music
- Georg Riedel
- Production designer
- Jan Boleslaw
- Editor
- Paul Davies
- Costume designer
- Birgitta Hahn
- Assistant director
- Peter Hald
- Translation
- Marianne Höök
A scene from Night Games
