Night Games (Zetterling, 1966): BFI Southbank, BFT2, 8.45pm
This screening is part of the Mai Zetterling season at BFI Southbank and also screens on May 21st. Details here. There is an introduction tonight by Professor Louis Lemkow, Mai Zetterling’s son.
BFI introduction:
Jan returns with his fiancée to his childhood home – a sprawling estate
stuffed with antiques – where he relives his memories of his beautiful,
decadent and mercurial mother, and finds himself forced to confront his
unresolved Oedipal longings. Night Games was controversial upon its
release, with some outraged by scenes of incest, masturbation and a
birth at a debauched party. John Waters named it his favourite film.
Here (and above) is the trailer
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