The Girls / Flickorna (1968) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #1162]
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~35.7 Mbps | 1hr 40mn | 45.0 GB
Swedish: LPCM Audio, 1 ch, 1152 kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~35.7 Mbps | 1hr 40mn | 45.0 GB
Swedish: LPCM Audio, 1 ch, 1152 kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Mai Zetterling
Writers: Mai Zetterling, David Hughes, Aristophanes (play "Lysistrata")
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom
Three Films by Mai Zetterling
A fearlessly transgressive, long-overlooked pioneer of feminist cinema, the Swedish actor turned director Mai Zetterling ruffled the feathers of the patriarchal establishment with a string of bracingly modern, sexually frank, and politically incendiary films focused on female agency and the turbulent state of twentieth-century Europe. Her ability to render subjective psychological states with startling immediacy is on display in these three taboo-shattering works from the 1960s, featuring some of Swedish cinema’s most iconic stars. With their audacious narrative structures, their elaborate use of symbolism, and their willingness to delve into the most fraught realms of human experience, these are models of adventurous, passionately engaged filmmaking.
Mai Zetterling’s cinema reached new heights of exuberant experimentation and fierce political engagement with this pointed and playful touchstone of 1960s feminist cinema. As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of Lysistrata, performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women (national cinema icons Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, and Gunnel Lindblom) find their own lives and marriages mirrored in the complex, combative gender relations at the heart of Aristophanes’s play. Onstage drama, offstage reality, and a torrent of surrealist fantasies and daydreams collide in The Girls, a slashing, sardonic reflection on the myriad challenges confronting women on their path to liberation, and on the struggles of the female artist fighting to make her voice heard over the patriarchal din.
Extras:
- NNew 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Lines from the Heart, a 1996 documentary reuniting The Girls actors Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, and Gunnel Lindblom
- New English subtitle translation
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