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THE MOTHER WITH TWO CHILDREN EXPECTING HER THIRD
LOVE ’65
Sweden, 1965
Written and Directed by Bo Widerberg
Starring Keve Hjelm, Ben Carruthers, Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, Evabritt Strandberg
Approx. 96 mins.
Widerberg’s most freewheeling film, mixing scenes of fantasy and realism that evoke Fellini’s 8½, LOVE ’65 is a self-referential work about a film director whose marriage and career are crumbling simultaneously, leading him to seek solace in an affair with an American woman. The actor in the film-within-a-film is played by Ben Carruthers, star of John Cassavetes’ SHADOWS. Using the Cassavetes film as a model, much of the dialogue in LOVE ’65 was improvised.
with The Mother With Two Children Expecting Her Third
Sweden, 1970
Directed by Bo Widerberg
Featuring Vanessa Redgrave
Approx. 7 min.
Vanessa Redgrave discusses her feelings about natural childbirth, and about the Vietnam War, in this short interview.
Reviews
“The dialogue in LOVE ’65 is more acute, perceptive, and honest than in any other Swedish film of the 1960s.”
– Peter Cowie
“The characters are emotional cripples desperately trying to connect in an idyllic setting, the imaginatively choreographed camera probing their fragile psyches.”
– Ted Shen, Chicago Reader