Loving Couples

Harriet Andersson (Actor), Gunnel Lindblom (Actor), Mai Zetterling (Director) | Rated: NR (Not Rated) | Format: DVD

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Actors: Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petr�, Anita Bj�rk, Gunnar Bj�rnstrand
Directors: Mai Zetterling
Writers: Mai Zetterling, Agnes von Krusenstjerna, David Hughes
Producers: Mai Zetterling, G�ran Lindgren, Rune Waldekranz
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Import
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English, French
Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
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Studio: Morningstar Ent.
Release Date: Aug 23 2005
Run Time: 117 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

ASIN: B000AABN1U

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Loving Couples gets presented as a naughty Scandinavian art film from the 1960s, but woe unto anyone who comes looking for titillation from this complex, sardonic, and often brutally frank film! The movie starts with three pregnant women in a hospital and flashes back to how each came to be there, culminating in a Midsummer celebration at a wealthy estate that--in its fluid visual style and scathing view of human relations--is reminiscent of Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. "30 seconds of heaven for 30 years of hell," snaps an arrogant obstetrician; "Men always let you down," mutters a bitter wife in front of her young, wide-eyed daughter; "Marriage--it's like falling asleep for the rest of your life," muses Angela, the youngest and most innocent of the pregnant trio. Mai Zetterling's stunning directorial debut has been criticized as overly influenced by her countryman Ingmar Bergman, but though Zetterling shares many of Bergman's themes, she strips away his ponderous portentousness. Bergman's camera is like the eye of a disappointed God, coating everything with layer of bleak guilt. Zetterling feels her characters' struggles are their own business; she watches them with a skeptical empathy, melancholy but tinged with hope. A rich, rewarding, and unjustly neglected film. This dvd release also includes Zetterling's outstanding 15-minute short film The War Game. --Bret Fetzer

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great film but beware the copy you buy!!!, Oct 30 2009

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This review is from: Loving Couples (DVD)

This a great film with a terrific cast.
My only caveat is beware the version you buy.
The New York video version is just fine.
However the Morningstar Entertainment version is just awful. There is a consistent ghosting of the images through the entire film making it unwatchable.
Beware of sellers who use the term "different cover art"
The New York Video version has a picture of Gunnel Lindblom on the cover the Morningstar version has not.

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