Scenes from a Marriage

Scenes from a Marriage (1973) starring Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. A married couple, played by Ullmann and Josephson, seem perfectly matched, except that he goes and falls in love with someone else, named Paula. This movie explores the years in which they fall apart, contemplate filing for divorce, get divorced, and eventually end up married to other partners. But still, at the end, they meet up while their spouses are away for a liaison at an old country cottage. It's basically a relationship movie, and it's very talky. In fact, almost all the action is talk. That's not necessarily bad, but in this case that talk is in Swedish, translated into English, and I can't help but think that something was lost in the translation. It's certainly a watchable movie, even mildly entertaining, but I didn't find it to be the great Bergman movie that some have made it out to be. It is, of course, in Swedish with English subtitles. Grade: B