Scenes from a Marriage
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Review by Brent Patron

Scenes from a Marriage 1973

★★★★★

Watched 24 Sep 2021

One of my favorite genres is married couples on the verge of divorce and this one is top tier. I cherish the episodes where it’s just the 2 leads for the entirety of the episode because you feel like you’re experiencing what they experience and feeling what they’re feeling. 

Bergman is completely in his bag here dealing with this tough feelings of love and longing, wanting independence, loneliness, depression, anger, disappointment, dependency.  A lot of it is rough, because I think we all see someone’s situation and think to ourselves “oh well I think I would have done it this way”, when in actuality, until you’re in that situation you have no clue how you react. There are so many times in this where I don’t agree with Marrianne’s or Johan’s reactions, but I’m not them. 

The performances from Liv Ullmann here is so layered. She is fighting to break ties with Johan, while trying to figure out what her new life could be and sometimes even break the mold of what it means to be a woman in Sweden in the 70s it seems.  

Josephson’s performance is great too because you think he’s this well rounded stoic father when in fact he can barely take care of himself and is kind of just a rather bad dude most of the time. 

Sven on the camera putting in the work as well. 

Big recommend from me!

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