Night Games

In Mai Zetterling’s scathing rebuke of European entitlement, a man returns to his childhood home and confronts his repressed memories and desire.

Jan returns with his fiancée to his childhood home – a sprawling estate stuffed with antiques – where he relives his memories of his beautiful, decadent and mercurial mother, and finds himself forced to confront his unresolved Oedipal longings. Night Games was controversial upon its release, with some outraged by its thematic hints of incest, masturbation and a birth scene at a debauched party. John Waters named it his favourite film.