Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
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Country: SV
Technical: col 169m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Erland Josephson, Liv Ullmann
Synopsis:
Marianne and Johan are apparently the model couple, and the subject of a television documentary. However, as their marriage evolves over the next ten years, through Johan's infidelity and ultimate divorce, they become aware that mutual contempt and an indissoluble bond are but two sides of the same coin.
Review:
Trimmed down from a much longer, six episode TV series, Bergman's seventies masterwork is far more a televisual two-hander than a cinematic tour de force, but is also very much a summation of his early films charting relations between the sexes, and a clear inspiration for some of Woody Allen's works. Female viewers may have a problem with Marianne's forbearance (she is spurned, insulted and beaten during the course of the drama, but is always ready with an indulgent smile), and the fact that the children are conspicuously absent from this marriage, nor is the fact that they are brought up single-handedly by Marianne for one minute held against Johan; these factors simply underline the essential egotism and latent misogyny of Bergman's world view. However, in the end the couple come out as equals, and this is as much down to the writing as it is to two very great performances.
(Scener ur ett äktenskap)
Country: SV
Technical: col 169m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Erland Josephson, Liv Ullmann
Synopsis:
Marianne and Johan are apparently the model couple, and the subject of a television documentary. However, as their marriage evolves over the next ten years, through Johan's infidelity and ultimate divorce, they become aware that mutual contempt and an indissoluble bond are but two sides of the same coin.
Review:
Trimmed down from a much longer, six episode TV series, Bergman's seventies masterwork is far more a televisual two-hander than a cinematic tour de force, but is also very much a summation of his early films charting relations between the sexes, and a clear inspiration for some of Woody Allen's works. Female viewers may have a problem with Marianne's forbearance (she is spurned, insulted and beaten during the course of the drama, but is always ready with an indulgent smile), and the fact that the children are conspicuously absent from this marriage, nor is the fact that they are brought up single-handedly by Marianne for one minute held against Johan; these factors simply underline the essential egotism and latent misogyny of Bergman's world view. However, in the end the couple come out as equals, and this is as much down to the writing as it is to two very great performances.
(Scener ur ett äktenskap)
Country: SV
Technical: col 169m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Erland Josephson, Liv Ullmann
Synopsis:
Marianne and Johan are apparently the model couple, and the subject of a television documentary. However, as their marriage evolves over the next ten years, through Johan's infidelity and ultimate divorce, they become aware that mutual contempt and an indissoluble bond are but two sides of the same coin.
Review:
Trimmed down from a much longer, six episode TV series, Bergman's seventies masterwork is far more a televisual two-hander than a cinematic tour de force, but is also very much a summation of his early films charting relations between the sexes, and a clear inspiration for some of Woody Allen's works. Female viewers may have a problem with Marianne's forbearance (she is spurned, insulted and beaten during the course of the drama, but is always ready with an indulgent smile), and the fact that the children are conspicuously absent from this marriage, nor is the fact that they are brought up single-handedly by Marianne for one minute held against Johan; these factors simply underline the essential egotism and latent misogyny of Bergman's world view. However, in the end the couple come out as equals, and this is as much down to the writing as it is to two very great performances.