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Loving Couples (Swedish: Älskande par) is a 1964 Swedish drama film directed by Mai Zetterling. It was Zetterling's first feature film and entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival. [2]
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, announcing the arrival of an uncompromising artist in pursuit of raw emotional truth.
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Agda, a housemaid made pregnant by a young middle-class man, has just married a homosexual artist. Adele, married to a farmer, suffers from frigidity, and is expecting a baby which is practically the product of a rape by her husband.
This adaptation of a novel by Agnes von Krusenstjerna deals with the place of women in Swedish society at the beginning of the 20th century, sharing the daily lives of couples from the artistic, bourgeois, aristocratic and proletarian worlds. The deep love between a man and a woman is portrayed as an ideal that cannot last forever.
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1964. Drama. 1h 58m. Three expectant mothers think back over their sex lives. Loving Couples featuring Harriet Andersson and Gunnel Lindblom is streaming with subscription on The Criterion Channel, streaming with subscription on Fandor, and streaming via tv everywhere with TCM.
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Loving Couples. Directed by Mai Zetterling • 1964 • Sweden. Starring Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré. The title of Mai Zetterling’s boldly iconoclastic debut feature—adapted from a cycle of seven novels by the provocative feminist writer Agnes von Krusenstjerna—drips with irony.
