Night Games
Director: Mai Zetterling
Year Released: 1966
Rating: 1.5
Psychosexual silliness that feels like it was lifted wholesale from a wildly outdated psych casebook: older Jan (Keve Hjelm) takes his gal-of-the-moment around his old house revisiting old memories he tried to suppress ... like when, as pre-teen (Jörgen Lindström), he used to watch Mommy (Ingrid Thulin) sleep with weird men and then try on her shoes, perfume, eyelashes, etc. You can't possibly worry about 'not getting this' since it's so achingly literal, juxtaposing past weirdness with Swinger Mom and current problems connecting on a sexual level with his mate: it doesn't take Krafft-Ebing to spell out the connection. The solution, it seems, to dealing with past demons is just to blow them up, quite literally: Hjelm rigs the old home with explosives, and ka-boom, memories and troubles be gone! Imagine how much can be saved on therapy!
