Scenes from a Marriage

Ingmar Bergman's 'Scenes from a Marriage' follows Marianne and Johan over a decade, unflinchingly documenting the deterioration and complex emotional aftermath of their marriage. Through long, intensely personal conversations, the film explores infidelity, dependency, loneliness, and the difficult search for self-knowledge. It remains one of cinema's most honest and devastating examinations of modern relationships.

• Originally a six-part Swedish TV miniseries before theatrical release.
• Bergman wrote the script in just a few weeks.
• Reportedly caused a spike in Swedish divorce rates after airing.
• Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson were former real-life lovers.
• The film runs over three hours in its theatrical cut.

• I have a feeling we don't really know each other.
• We live in total ignorance about ourselves and others.
• I've never been able to live without you, and that's my misfortune.
• We should have divorced long ago. Instead we live on, entangled.
• Sometimes I grieve for us. For what we could have been.