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Loving Couples

Three expectant mothers on a maternity ward recall their personal and sexual experiences in Mai Zetterling’s bold, subversive debut.

Drama 1964 118 mins Not rated

Director: Mai Zetterling

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Overview

Mai Zetterling’s feature debut weaves together the lives of three women, each reflecting on their personal and sexual lives as they arrive at a maternity ward in the summer of 1914. Through flashbacks, fragments of their lives and loves are retold – incestuous love, masochistic love, lesbian love, destructive love. With its sexual candour, the film caused some upset at Cannes, where it premiered, but received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

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