The Girls

1968 [SWEDISH]

Action / Comedy / Drama

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 1166 1.2K

woman director

Plot summary

As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women find their own lives and marriages mirrored in Aristophanes’s play. Soon, onstage drama, offstage reality, and surrealist fantasies begin to collide.

Director

Mai Zetterling Photo
Mai Zetterling

Top cast

Bibi Andersson Photo
Bibi Andersson as Liz Lindstrand
Bertil Norström Photo
Bertil Norström as Restaurant Guest
Bellan Roos Photo
Bellan Roos as Choir Member
Joseph Stalin Photo
Joseph Stalin as Self
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
922.22 MB
1194*720
Swedish 2.0
NR
Subtitles sv  
23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 1
1.67 GB
1792*1080
Swedish 2.0
NR
Subtitles sv  
23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by boblipton 7 / 10

Among The Problems With Modernizing LYSISTRATA....

Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, and Gunnel Lindblom go on tour with LYSISTRATA and become radicalized into political agency by the play and the reactions -- or lack of reactions -- to it.Mai Zetterling's film disappeared from the theaters after three weeks of awful receipts. The critics -- men, of course -- didn't care for this tale of how these women's real lives bonded with their stage lives to create a third life, part dream, part hallucination, with the men reduced to indistinguishable, impotent actors driven simply by their lusts for sex and dull normality.The movie has gained respect over the years, with feminists acclaiming it. But were the critics of the time so wrong? Aristophanes' play has often often attracted the attention of modern writers and producers. They've made modern-dress novels, and plays and movies, and they seem to have a uniformly poor reception. Perhaps the attraction of the source material to Ms Zetterling was it was one of the few works of classic literature in which women had agency. Whereas Aristophanes intended this as mockery of the new, more democratic spirit of Athens that he so despised, offering peace as so obvious that even women could see it, and men being such brutes that they'd do anything for sexual release. He was not making an argument for extending the franchise to women; he wanted a return to the Good Old Days, when aristocrats with names like Aristophanes were in charge.Perhaps the failing here is Ms Zetterling's honesty. Like Spike Jones, in his gloss on the play, CHI-RAQ, she points out the hypocrisy of the class she argues for, their cowardice in refusing to accept responsibility. That's one of the risks of satire. Once you've offended everyone, there aren't going to be many fans.
Reviewed by peefyn 6 / 10

Dated film with some great surreal scenes

I believe this movie represents how it felt to be an out-spoken feminist in the 60s. The people you were preaching to weren't listening, the people you were preaching against were laughing of you. It must have been a terrible struggle, and this movie portrays this in an interesting manner.However, while feminism movement is still going strong (and rightfully so), this movie does not hold up as that relevant any more. The feminist struggle was different back then than now, and while some of the problems are the same, the "war" (as they call it in the film) is different, making this movie feel as dated as it is.The highlights of the movie are some of the surreal scenes. I believe this is the only movie with a chase scene where a snowmobile is chasing a kicksled.So, I would say watch this if you are interested in either feminism in cinema, or the situation of the feminists in the 60s and 70s. Or if you are interested in (swedish) film history, as this release caused some controversy. But if you are a casual moviegoer that (amazingly) stumbles upon this, you probably will not be too happy.
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