Scenes from a Marriage (digital restoration)
Ingmar Bergman made a subtle, raw, and intimate anthology film for television about the breakdown of the “ideal” marriage, about disappointment and loneliness. After ten years, Johan, a professor, and Marianne, a lawyer, find themselves in a marital crisis.
Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) think they are the ideal couple, but fail to see that their marriage is built on quicksand. What follows is a theatrical exploration of the true nature of love and living together. Ingmar Bergman looks through a microscope at one of the smallest cells of our society and shows us the process of decay, but also the possibility of recovery.
It took Bergman three months to write the film, but “a large part of my life to experience it.” For *Scenes from a Marriage*, he traded the symbolic approach of his earlier films for a realistic, raw, and intimate style, which is entirely at the service of the actors’ subtle performances. Winner of a Golden Globe.
