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Bookmark this pageWhat Are You Doing After the Orgy? (1970)
Director: Jan Halldoff
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From Time Out Film Guide
Despite the come-on of the English title, not a sex pic but a long, lugubrious, and finally quite engaging black comedy in which a woman believed dead these two years (Sjöblom) suddenly descends on her bored but relatively peaceful holidaying family. Now a hooker by trade, she organises herself a procession of paying customers, and for her daughter a financially beneficial line in 'amateur photographers', while downtrodden dad mends the roof and gets the drinks. Her plots founder on young love, but there's a suitably murky ending. Slow and sometimes predictable, the film often commits virtual acts of aggression on its characters and actors in an attempt to exact humour or pathos; nevertheless Halldorf does manage to take it towards a bleakly amusing analysis of family relationships.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Jan Halldoff
Producer: Bengt Forslund
Cast: Carl Gustav Lindstedt, Ulla Sjöblom, Ernst Günther, Ulf Palme, Christina Lindberg, Eddie Axberg full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 104 mins
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