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Loving Couples

Opens on August 21

Director: Mai Zetterling Run Time: 118 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1964 Language: Swedish

Starring: Anita Björk, Gio Petré, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Harriet Andersson

The title of Maï Zetterling’s boldly iconoclastic debut feature drips with irony. In 1915, three pregnant women from varying social backgrounds 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. – Janus Films Brattle Debut 

Double Feature with THE GIRLS

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