First integral viewing; theatrical version viewed on February 4, 1990.
English title: Scenes from a Marriage
Johan and Marianne are seen as a happy couple, but one day this image falls apart: Johan tells Marianne he is leaving her for another woman.
Very uneven, ranging from brilliancy to straightforward soap-opera to mere opaqueness. The intelligence of some of the dialogue is admirable, but the drama as a whole is not as convincing as I thought on my previous viewing (of the theatrical version). Also, it is rather tiresome due to the absence of action; everything is shown through dialogue. It goes beyond the simple chronicle of a specific marriage; it intends to be a summing up of all marriages. The evidences for this ambition are multiple, but listing them would make this review too long; suffice it to point out that Marianne's second marriage only repeats the patterns of the first, implying that all marriages follow them. Several behavioral oddities defy credibility; the last episode is entirely absurd.
Rating: 60 (down from 87)
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