Danger Man
1961
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Apr 22, 2024 · Mai Zetterling (born May 24, 1925, Västerås, Sweden—died March 15?, 1994, London, England) was a Swedish actress, director, and novelist. As a director, she imbued her work with a passionate feminism. Zetterling was trained for the stage and made both her stage and screen debut in 1941 when she was 16 years of age.
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.
Dec 13, 2022 · She is the author of A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020). Among her other publications are The Swedish Porn Scene: Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film (Intellect, 2017) and A Visual History of HIV/AIDS: Exploring the Face of AIDS Film Archive (coedited with Elisabet ...
Swedish stage and screen actress, film director and author who made her most important contribution to Swedish cinema as an advocate of women's rights and a critic of contemporary society. Born Mai Elisabeth Zetterling in Vasterås, Sweden, on May 24, 1925; died of cancer at her home in London, England, on March 15, 1994; daughter of Lina ...
Mar 19, 1994 · Mai Zetterling, the Swedish actress who went on to a career as one of Europe's busiest female film directors, died on Tuesday in London. She was 68 and had homes in London and in Banne, France....
Oct 19, 2020 · Where to begin with Mai Zetterling. With her debut feature Loving Couples getting a rare screening at BFI Southbank, we pick a beginner’s path through the transgressive and anarchic cinema of Swedish director Mai Zetterling. 19 October 2020. By Alex Barrett. Loving Couples (1964) Why this might not seem so easy.
1925 - 1994. Already in her feature debut Loving Couples ( Älskande par, 1964), Mai Zetterling emanates as a wilful and highly opinionated creator of rich images with more in common with filmmakers like Luis Buñuel, Alf Sjöberg and Ingmar Bergman than with political social realists of the 1960s and 70s. Fittingly, it was in Frenzy ( Hets ...
