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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. In 1915, three pregnant women from varying social backgrounds (Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, and Gio Petré) enter a maternity ward. Cue a swirl of perspective-shifting flashbacks that, with searing ...
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Julie Fredrika. von Krusenstjerna. 1894-10-09 — 1940-03-10. Author. Agnes von Krusenstjerna was one of the most well-known Swedish authors of the interwar years. Her novels about women’s dreams for the future, their relationships, their sexuality and the limiting conditions they lived under, generated both opposition and support and ...
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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. In 1915, three pregnant women from ...
Agnes von Krusenstjerna. 1894 - 1940. Sweden. Agnes von Krusenstjerna grew up in an aristocratic officer’s family and has been labelled a decadent, trivial writer, but has also been celebrated as a genius on a par with Marcel Proust and D. H. Lawrence. Due to mental illness, which took the form of bouts of hysteria, she was forced to leave ...
Like Proust, von Krusenstjerna used the family chronicle form, like him she treated the sexual and the abnormal strands in life as well as the normal, and like him she was possessed of extraordinary insight into the lives of others and freely used her own. But unlike Proust, von Krusenstjerna never developed a special technique for her writing.
Loving Couples (1964 film) Loving Couples. (1964 film) Times Square marquee : "Moral Decay Erotically Revealed !"; Loving Couple with Gate of Flesh [1] 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.
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The aim of this article is to explore the queer possibilities of the silence in the depiction of the protagonist’s love life in Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s Tony trilogy (1922–1926).
