Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from a marriage"'s biggest advantage but also its biggest problem is that it centers the two main characters, the married Johan and Marianne that much that after about one hour there's not a single scene without exactly these two characters. They both are in every scene. Alone.
so this makes it a movie that wants nothing else but analysing marriage with the example of this marriage. And it works somehow, it's partly moving, partly disturbing, is incredibly well acted and shot and really gives you the felling that this is is something real. But nevertheless in the end you sat there for 2 hours and 40 minutes and after so many changes from "I never realized how much i love you" to "I never realized how much I hate you" and back. and back. and back. you are kind of frustrated. although for a bergman the ending is quite happy.
it's an average bergman, and by that, of course, a good movie. but you probably may not see it again.
I give it 6 points out of ten, although I'm sure that there are many people who would rate it completely different (in both directions) as it is a movie that is not easy to watch.
