Night Games

1966, 1h 45min -

Outrageous 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, NIGHT GAMES functions 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. Show more

"Night Games" — movie produced in Sweden and released in 1966. It has a good rating on IMDb: 6.3 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 45min. "Night Games" is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime ⎥ BFI Player. Click on a playlink to watch it now!