{"product_id":"three-films-by-mai-zetterling-blu-ray","title":"Three Films by Mai Zetterling (BLU-RAY)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA fearlessly transgressive, long-overlooked pioneer of feminist cinema, Swedish actor turned director Mai Zetterling ruffled the feathers of the patriarchal establishment with a string of bracingly modern, sexually frank, and politically incendiary films focused on female agency and the turbulent state of twentieth-century Europe. Her peerless ability to render subjective psychological states with startling immediacy is on display in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLoving Couples, Night Games,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Girls—\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethree provocative, taboo-shattering works from the 1960s featuring some of Swedish cinema’s most iconic stars. With their audacious narrative structures that fuse reality and fantasy, their elaborate use of metaphor and symbolism, and their willingness to delve into the most fraught realms of human experience, these movies are models of adventurous, passionately engaged filmmaking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLoving Couples\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLoving Couples\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis as electrifying a first feature as any in cinema history, announcing the arrival of an uncompromising artist in pursuit of raw emotional truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNight Games\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOutrageous 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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight Games\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efunctions 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMai Zetterling’s cinema reached new heights of exuberant experimentation and fierce political engagement with this pointed and playful touchstone of 1960s feminist cinema. As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLysistrata,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eperforming to often uncomprehending audiences, three women (national cinema icons Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, and Gunnel Lindblom) find their own lives and marriages mirrored in the complex, combative gender relations at the heart of Aristophanes’s play. Onstage drama, offstage reality, and a torrent of surrealist fantasies and daydreams collide in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Girls,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ea slashing, sardonic reflection on the myriad challenges confronting women on their path to liberation, and on the struggles of the female artist fighting to make her voice heard over the patriarchal din.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eTHREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew 2K digital restorations, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew interview with author Alicia Malone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMaybe I Really Am a Sorceress,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ea 1989 documentary on director Mai Zetterling, featuring interviews with Zetterling; her coscreenwriter, David Hughes; and actors Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson, and Gunnel Lindblom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eLines from the Heart,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ea 1996 documentary reuniting\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Girls\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eactors Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, and Lindblom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterview with Zetterling from 1984 on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLoving Couples\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSwedish television footage from 1966, filmed on location during the production of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight Games\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand at the film’s premiere\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew English subtitle translations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePLUS: An essay by film scholar Mariah Larsson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew cover by Eric Skillman\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unobstructed View","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42348828197064,"sku":"CC3422BD","price":105.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/products\/threefilmsbymaizetterlingbd.jpg?v=1664485389","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/es\/products\/three-films-by-mai-zetterling-blu-ray","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}