Roulette der Liebe (1965)

Roulette der Liebe: Directed by Bo Widerberg. With Keve Hjelm, Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, Inger Taube, Evabritt Strandberg. A film director has problems coping with his wife and marriage. The daughter is their only connecting link. He is looking for love and sex elsewhere. A married woman becomes his new partner for a while.

“u0026#39;Kärlek 65u0026#39; (u0026#39;Love 65u0026#39; in English) is one of my favourite films. It may unfortunately be somewhat difficult to find in the US but I think that there is a version with English subtitles to be found in the UK.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film is by Bo Widerberg, who is best known outside of Sweden for u0026#39;Elvira Madiganu0026#39;. Love 65 is a far better film and is in my opinion easily the best film Widerberg made.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLove 65 is basically about a film director (and his family and friends)played by Keve Hjälm who is working on his latest film but seems to be finding it hard to concentrate on making movies and apart from a brief shooting scene we mostly get to see other aspects of his life: in Stockholm, at his country cottage by the sea, an extra-marital affair, and so on. He likes to fly kites and there are several scenes of kite-flying in the movie, one of them with Ben Carruthers who has come to Sweden to be in Keveu0026#39;s film. This is the actor who was in Cassevetesu0026#39; Shadows.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere are many very lyrical scenes in the film, aided by music from Vivaldi and others.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film is both naturalistic and imaginative. All the characters have their own names: that is: the actorsu0026#39; own names: so the character played by Keve is also called Keve, and so on.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI have always loved this film from the first time I saw it (on Swedish TV in 1982) and I have a VHS copy. I am planning to get it on DVD too some time. Thoroughly recommended!”