Night Games

Nattlek

In Mai Zetterling’s scathing rebuke of European entitlement, a man returns to his childhood home and confronts his repressed memories and desire.

  • Director

    Mai Zetterling

  • With

    Ingrid Thulin, Keve Hjelm, Naima Wifstrand, Monica Zetterlund, Lena Brundin

  • Sweden 1966. 105min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • Certificate

    18

  • English subtitles

Jan returns with his fiancée to his childhood home – a sprawling estate stuffed with antiques – where he relives his memories of his beautiful, decadent and mercurial mother, and finds himself forced to confront his unresolved Oedipal longings. Night Games was controversial upon its release, with some outraged by scenes of incest, masturbation and a birth at a debauched party. John Waters named it his favourite film.

The screening of Night Games on Wednesday 7 May 20:45 NFT2 will be introduced by Professor Louis Lemkow, Mai Zetterling’s son.