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From the Life of the Marionettes

1980 · 1h 44m · R Drama, TV Movie
Directed by Ingmar Bergman

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Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter Egermann, the feuding, childless, professional couple who appear in one episode of "Scenes From A Marriage." After Peter perpetrates a horrendous crime in its first scene, the rest of the film consists of a non-linear examination of his motivations, incorporating a police psychological investigation, scenes from the Egermanns' married life, and dream sequences.

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The subject of this Ingmar Bergman film is repression, but everything is dismayingly on the surface.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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Bergman's not exactly successful examination of the events and warped psychology leading up to a bourgeois businessman's murder of a prostitute.

Time Out

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