Night Games

1966

1 hr. 45 min.

Drama

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25%

8 Reviews

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100%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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A man who has severe sexual and emotional inhibitions returns to his childhood home and recalls the debauched events that contributed to his current troubles.

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Mai Zetterling

Director

Ingrid Thulin

Irene

Keve Hjelm

Jan

Jörgen Lindström

Jan, Age 12

Lena Brundin

Mariana

Naima Wifstrand

Astrid

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Pauline Kael

The New Republic

A Gothic tale about decadence and impotence, combining the worst of Fellini with the worst of Bergman, and featuring the kind of depraved upper-class partying at which the question “Don’t you wish you were dead?” is answered by “I’m dead already.”

Sep 20, 2023

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Bosley Crowther

New York Times

[Mai Zetterling] has skill and an eye for color in creating visual images. But she takes us through a chamber of horrors without shedding any real light in Night Games.

Sep 20, 2023

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

It is a film made entirely in the mind, as if the heart were no concern, and it can be seen that way -- as a cold, aloof study of human neurosis. But not for a moment did I care about any of the characters.

Rated: 2.5/4

Sep 20, 2023

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

"Night Games" retains its ability to shock viewers after over 50 years due to Mai Zetterling's intuitive ability to dig equally into male and female psyche, while keeping an artistic distance.

Rated: FIVE STARS

Nov 5, 2023

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Robert Hatch

The Nation

Horrification is a delicate theatrical operation; overcook it ever so little and it curdles into slapstick. That is the accident that occurred to Night Games.

Nov 23, 2020

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Tony Mastroianni

Cleveland Press

It is obvious and depressing and when not depressing it is unintentionally funny.

Jan 22, 2019

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Synopsis

A man who has severe sexual and emotional inhibitions returns to his childhood home and recalls the debauched events that contributed to his current troubles.

Director: Mai Zetterling
Screenwriter: Mai Zetterling, David Hughes
Production Co: Sandrews
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Swedish