Loving Couples

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British critic Kenneth Tynan dubbed Zetterling’s first feature ‘one of the most ambitious debuts since Citizen Kane’.

  • Director

    Mai Zetterling

  • With

    Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré, Anita Björk, Gunnar Björnstrand

  • Sweden 1964. 118min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • Certificate

    18

  • English subtitles

Mai Zetterling’s feature debut weaves together the lives of three women, each reflecting on their personal and sexual lives as they arrive at a maternity ward in the summer of 1914. Through flashbacks, fragments of their lives and loves are retold – incestuous love, masochistic love, lesbian love, destructive love. With its sexual candour, the film caused some upset at Cannes, where it premiered, but received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

The screening of Loving Couples on Tuesday 6 May 20:20 NFT3 will be introduced by Professor Louis Lemkow, Mai Zetterling’s son.