Saraband

A rare, unexpected treat. Nearly two decades after announcing his retirement from filmmaking, Ingmar Bergman not only returned to cinema, but returned with a coda to the lives of Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson), the subjects of his six-part, six-hour TV saga SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE (1973). Thirty years have passed since their marriage crumbled under the weight of Johan's infidelity and Marianne's shaky sense of self, and as predicted, she's emerged from the matrimonial ruins a stronger, wiser woman. Both her daughters are grown — one lives in Australia with her lawyer husband, while a degenerative brain disease has left the other confined to a...