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Scenes from a Marriage

1974 · 2h 49m · TV-PG Drama, Romance
Directed by Ingmar Bergman

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Overview

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.

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All reviews
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh

The film is an uncompromisingly harrowing and honest account of male-female relationships.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

One of the truest, most luminous love stories ever made.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

It's a movie of such extraordinary intimacy that it has the effect of breaking into mysterious components many things we ordinarily accept without thought, familiar and banal objects, faces, attitudes, and emotions, especially love.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten

Bergman's screenplay leaves nothing to the imagination and turns the film into a windy soap opera most of the time; what might have been a masterpiece in the TV original (although I doubt it) becomes in its truncated form mostly elegant mush.

Don Druker, Chicago Reader

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