Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
NIGHT GAMES
Nattlek
Synopsis
On the eve of his marriage to his fiancée, Jan returns to his childhood home—a sprawling estate stuffed with antiques—where he relives his memories of his beautiful, decadent, mercurial mother and finds himself forced to confront his unresolved Oedipal longings.
Synopsis
On the eve of his marriage to his fiancée, Jan returns to his childhood home—a sprawling estate stuffed with antiques—where he relives his memories of his beautiful, decadent, mercurial mother and finds himself forced to confront his unresolved Oedipal longings.
Our take
One month after Ingmar Bergman’s Persona was released in Sweden, Night Games cheekily put the same child actor in the throes of maternal attachment. Immersed in the son’s neuroses, Mai Zetterling creates a phenomenal psychodrama of debauched sexuality—one that counts John Waters among its fans!