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Loving Couples

Loving Couples

Drama
1964, Movie, 1h 58min
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.
Country: Sweden
Director:
Mai Zetterling
Cast:
Gunnar Björnstrand,
Hanny Schedin,
Arne Lindblad,
Harriet Andersson
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Mai Zetterling
Director
Gunnar Björnstrand
As Dr. Jacob Lewin
Hanny Schedin
As Cleaning woman (uncredited)
Arne Lindblad
As Guest (uncredited)
Harriet Andersson
As Agda Frideborg
Åke Grönberg
As The fat man
Inga Landgré
As Mrs. Sally Lewin

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