Nattlek (aka Night Games) (1966)

A young man (Keve Hjelm) returns to his childhood home with his bride (Lena Brundin). But the house is haunted by the memory of his childhood and his sexual obsession with his decadent and self centered mother (Ingrid Thulin). Based on the novel by Mai Zetterling and directed by Zetterling. A controversial film when released, it was shown at the Venice film festival only to the jury and press and not the public. At the San Francisco film festival, Shirley Temple was so revolted that she resigned from the festival's board referring to the movie as pornography. Almost 60 years later, it's still a shocker and honestly, I don't think it would ever get released in the U.S. without a certain scene involving a child being cut. It's a surreal film going from the present to the past as we see why the film's protagonist is so f*cked up and who wouldn't be with a childhood like that but I found the film's catharsis unrealistic when a good psychiatrist could have done the job without the destruction. Unsettling to say the least! As the child version of the protagonist, 14 year old Jorgen Lindstrom quit acting (after having worked with Ingmar Bergman twice) a year after the movie's release and I wonder if this film didn't do a number on his psyche? With Naima Wifstrand and Laurtiz Falk.