Loving Couples is currently streaming on The Criterion Channel

Loving Couples (1964)117 minDramaRating 63/100

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. The film caused some upset at Cannes but received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Cast: Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré, Anita Björk, Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Jan Malmsjö

Director: Mai Zetterling