Bo Widerberg's New Swedish Cinema [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"Driven by a desire to forge a socially conscious Swedish cinema-one that broke with the inward-looking psychodrama of Ingmar Bergman to give dynamic expression to the everyday experiences of working-class Swedes-writer Bo Widerberg turned to filmmaking in the early 1960s, realizing his ambition in politically committed yet poetic works that merge social-realist themes with a refined, often breathtakingly beautiful visual sensibility. Dramatizing the struggles of ordinary people fighting to...