One of the finest of Ingmar Bergman's late-period films, SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE was in its original form a six-episode, 300-minute Swedish television series; Bergman cut it for US release. Here the director-writer again proves that he is one of film's best, and most theatrical, directors
of actresses, giving the inimitable Ullmann a superb script that casts her in the role of an abandoned wife forced to deal with her weak husband Josephson's involvement with a younger woman. Filmed almost entirely in extreme close-ups by the masterful Sven Nykvist, Ullmann's face conveys a variety
of expressions reminiscent of Renee Falconetti in Carl Dreyer's silent THE PASSION OF...
Released:
1973
Rated:
PG
Length:
168 mins