In this interview, recorded in New York in 2022, Alicia Malone, author of “The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women,” discusses Mai Zetterling’s journey from actor to director, her return to her home country of Sweden to direct films in the 1960s, and why her work isn't better known today.
Up Next in Three by Mai Zetterling
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Maybe I Really Am A Sorceress
Broadcast on German television in 1989, this documentary by Katja Raganelli is an intimate portrait of director Mai Zetterling that includes interviews with Zetterling, David Hughes (Zetterling’s ex-husband and the cowriter of LOVING COUPLES, NIGHT GAMES, and THE GIRLS), and actors Harriet Anders...
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Lines from the Heart
Filmed at Mai Zetterling’s home in France after the director’s death, this seventy-five-minute 1996 documentary reunites THE GIRLS actors Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, and Gunnel Lindblom, who look back on their illustrious careers and discuss their craft, working with Zetterling, motherhood...
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Mai Zetterling on LOVING COUPLES
In this interview, recorded in 1984, Mai Zetterling recalls why she became a director; the making of her first feature film, LOVING COUPLES; and how the response to her fourth, THE GIRLS, impacted her career.
