63%User score 63 percent
Under the Silver Lake
2018 · Crime · Drama
User Score
77 votes
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.
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CRCulver
September 6, 2018
In the 1960s Sweden underwent an enormous social upheaval, which brought it from a rather rigidly stratified and staid society, which cinephiles might have seen in Ingmar Bergman's earliest films, to a place where the old sexual taboos collapsed and angry class war broke out just like in some other Western European countries. The Swedish filmmaker Vilgot Sjöman decided to reflect those changing mores (and possibly sp…
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CinemaSerf
January 24, 2026
This film was released in the year I was born, so now almost sixty years later it’s hardly surprising that it has lost much of it’s punch. It is, however, still an entertaining enterprise that marries the factual and the fictional in a fashion that isn’t always that easy to distinguish. With a solid effort underpinning it all from Lena Nyman this presents us with an interesting exposé on socialist idealism and sexual…
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