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Månen är en grön ost [The Moon Is a Green Cheese] (Mai Zetterling, 1977)
Aug
21
violet
A woman in a violet dress and sunhat, plays a harp in the middle of a lake (via). DP: John Bulmer.
Violet in food or fashion. If in doubt, pick a title with ALL the colours of the rainbow!*
During their stay in the family summer house, two sisters imagine themselves as adults, once for every colour of the rainbow.
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Nattlek [Night Games] (Mai Zetterling, 1966)
Mar
8
International Women's Day
Jan (Jörgen Lindström) and his mother (Ingrid Thulin) share a bed while she reads him a bedtime story. DP: Rune Ericson.
When returning home to the castle he grew up in, Jan attempts to free himself from the suffocating clutches of his neurotic mother.
This film was the final straw for Shirley Temple; she resigned from the board of the San Francisco Film Festival calling Zetterling's film “pornography for profit”.
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Doktor Glas [Doctor Glas] (Mai Zetterling, 1968)
May
27
akvavit
A man (Per Oscarsson) raises a glass and peers though its ribs and liquids. DP: Rune Ericson.