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Ingmar Bergman’s astonishing portrayal of the disintegration of a marriage ranks with the greatest films of his late period. Liv Ullmann stars as a “happily” married lawyer whose husband suddenly leaves her for another woman. Bergman skillfully edited the story’s original six television episodes into a feature-length film that cuts to the heart of human relationships. Amazon.com
Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage opens with a couple–Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson)–being interviewed for a magazine. Every moment seems to teeter on the brink of some rupture; just as they start to get comfortable, the interviewer has them freeze for a photograph. After making some bland general statements, they both start admitting intimate details, confessing that they were brought together by mutual misery, then cheerfully claiming that theirs is a model marriage. The entirety of Scenes from a Marriage, which chronicles their emotional relation… More >>
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