Night Games
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Criterion ChannelA man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood.
Criterion ChannelA man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood.
Mai Zetterling (24 May 1925 – 17 March 1994). Shirley Temple resigned from the San Francisco International Film Festival after attacking Mai Zetterling’s frank and controversial 1966 Swedish film drama Night Games as ‘pornography for profit’. Director Mai Zetterling’s frank and controversial 1966 Swedish film drama Night Games [Nattlek] stars Ingrid Thulin, Keve Hjelm, Lena Brundin, and Naima Wifstrand. Zetterling’s adaptation of her own novel offers an insight into the psyche of a sexually inhibited, disturbed man.
"Night Games" retains its ability to shock viewers after over 50 years due to Mai Zetterling's intuitive ability to dig equally into male and female psyche, while keeping an artistic distance.[Mai Zetterling] has skill and an eye for color in creating visual images. But she takes us through a chamber of horrors without shedding any real light in Night Games.
