Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:15
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.5/10
Runtime: 4 hrs 59 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE was originally conceived as a six-part TV mini-series. Since the film features only two principal actors, a limited number of indoor locales, and no musical score (nor any... [More]
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Reviews for Scenes from a Marriage
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Left so little to the imagination. Full Review |
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There is little plot to speak of -- the film's chief force lying in its dramatization of marital trauma -- but viewers will be deeply moved by the marvelous acting and the honesty of Bergman's screenplay. Full Review |
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The film is an uncompromisingly harrowing and honest account of male-female relationships. Full Review |
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Reflecting the feminist movement, this raw, uncompromising anatomy of marriage, centers on Liv Ullmann's doubts, despair and confusion after her husband leaves her Full Review |
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4/4 |
One of the truest, most luminous love stories ever made. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A dramatically absorbing and psychologically rich portrait of a couple whose intimate relationship is falling apart and evolving into something quite different. Full Review |
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It peels the skin off marriage to see how it really ticks. Full Review |
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This raw and uncompromising movie, which should be required viewing for anyone even thinking about getting hitched, has endured as one of Bergman's finest achievements. Full Review |
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Shot in 16mm and tightly photographed, the film is immediate and unflinching in its probity, its scenes ranging from the enormously cruel to the redemptive. Full Review |
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The shelf life of a marriage is meticulously plotted by Sweden's leading arthouse director. Not that the plotting is over: Saraband, is the master's newest edition to the marriage saga-- years after and will be released this year ( 2003).
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Bergman's film is full of acute, resonant observations on the emotional lives of its characters, the memory of which lingers long after the closing credits. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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