Ingmar Bergman

Liv Ullmann

Erland Josephson

Bibi Andersson

Jan Malmsjö

Gunnel Lindblom

Wenche Foss

Bertil Norström

Anita Wall

Rossana Mariano

Lena Bergman

Barbro Hiort af Ornäs

Lars-Owe Carlberg

Siv Lundgren

Sven Nykvist

Björn Thulin

Arne Carlsson

Owe Svensson

Inger Pehrsson

Cecilia Drott

Cinematograph AB

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.

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The movies of Ingmar Bergman contain multitudes. His achingly humane dramas meditate on grief, loss, the process of aging, and the inevitable wrath of death. They do so both on the surface – with the closely observed performances and gorgeous deep-focus cinematography provided by his impeccable stable of collaborators – and underneath it, as layers of intricate and <a href="https://boxd.it/1nrU" rel="nofollow">complex storytelling</a> unfurl with every rewatch. If you are scratching your head in wonder trying to decipher the essence of Bergman, you’re not the only one. You join a long list of dedicated fans, including New Hollywood doyens Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen, who have spent their lengthy careers in artistic debt to the Swedish master. If an artist’s merit is determined by his cultural impact, then Bergman can rank among the best.Whittling down Bergman’s enormous and impressive filmography to a top 10 is a truly futile task. Still, in this listicle, I hope to provide an insight into why these existentialist Scandi-dramas remain such a constant source of fascination, inspiration, and entertainment for generations of cinephiles. They mix vaunted classics with relatively overlooked masterpieces. Among his 10 best films are <a href="https://boxd.it/29B4" rel="nofollow">Persona</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1Rio" rel="nofollow">Autumn Sonata</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/4kJC" rel="nofollow">Scenes from a Marriage</a>, and <a href="https://boxd.it/22go" rel="nofollow">Fanny and Alexander</a>. Here Are The 10 Best Ingmar Bergman Films: <a href="https://www.highonfilms.com/best-ingmar-bergman-films/" rel="nofollow">www.highonfilms.com/best-ingmar-bergman-films/</a>

The movies of Ingmar Bergman contain multitudes. His achingly humane dramas meditate on grief, loss, the process of aging, and the inevitable wrath of death. They do so both on the surface – with the closely observed performances and gorgeous deep-focus cinematography provided by his impeccable stable of collaborators – and underneath it, as layers of intricate and <a href="https://boxd.it/1nrU">complex storytelling</a> unfurl with every rewatch. If you are scratching your head in wonder trying to decipher the essence of Bergman, you’re not the only one. You join a long list of dedicated fans, including New Hollywood doyens Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen, who have spent their lengthy careers in artistic debt to the Swedish master. If an artist’s merit is determined by his cultural impact, then Bergman can rank among the best.

Whittling down Bergman’s enormous and impressive filmography to a top 10 is a truly futile task. Still, in this listicle, I hope to provide an insight into why these existentialist Scandi-dramas remain such a constant source of fascination, inspiration, and entertainment for generations of cinephiles. They mix vaunted classics with relatively overlooked masterpieces. Among his 10 best films are <a href="https://boxd.it/29B4">Persona</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1Rio">Autumn Sonata</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/4kJC">Scenes from a Marriage</a>, and <a href="https://boxd.it/22go">Fanny and Alexander</a>. 

Here Are The 10 Best Ingmar Bergman Films:
https://www.highonfilms.com/best-ingmar-bergman-films/

10 Best Films of Ingmar Bergman

Sa perception du cinéma en tant qu'acteur, mais aussi en tant que réalisateur : Jesse Eisenberg est insaisissable (👀) dans le Video Club. L'acteur revient sur les œuvres et les protagonistes du milieu du cinéma qui l'ont influencé depuis le début de sa carrière. De sa découverte de personnages profonds avec le film <a href="https://boxd.it/4kJC" rel="nofollow">Scènes de la vie conjugale</a> à ses collaborations avec Emma Stone et Kieran Culkin, il nous dit tout !Son nouveau film, <a href="https://boxd.it/CjNG" rel="nofollow">A Real Pain</a>, l'un des favoris des Oscars, est actuellement en salles.

Sa perception du cinéma en tant qu'acteur, mais aussi en tant que réalisateur : Jesse Eisenberg est insaisissable (👀) dans le Video Club. L'acteur revient sur les œuvres et les protagonistes du milieu du cinéma qui l'ont influencé depuis le début de sa carrière.
De sa découverte de personnages profonds avec le film <a href="https://boxd.it/4kJC">Scènes de la vie conjugale</a> à ses collaborations avec Emma Stone et Kieran Culkin, il nous dit tout !

Son nouveau film, <a href="https://boxd.it/CjNG">A Real Pain</a>, l'un des favoris des Oscars, est actuellement en salles.

Jesse Eisenberg dans le Vidéo Club

Friends, if you aren't caught up yet on the <a href="https://letterboxd.com/70mmpod/story/70mm-movies-about-movies/edit/apple.co/70mm" rel="nofollow">podcast</a>, during the month of January we focused on movies from the 1970s. We even had Letterboxd West Coast Editor <a href="https://letterboxd.com/brat/" rel="nofollow">Mia Vicino</a> as a guest to choose our final movie of the month. <a href="https://boxd.it/1f4e" rel="nofollow">Opening Night</a> fans rejoice.To kick things off we chose <a href="https://boxd.it/4kJC" rel="nofollow">Scenes from a Marriage</a> as a team pick to start the month. Our community was initially excited for this month but oh boy then we started choosing long foreign movies. Next up, they said it couldn't be done; slim chose <a href="https://boxd.it/T18" rel="nofollow">Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles</a>. Sight &amp; Sound forced his hand, he said. It's time to watch something new and feel something, he said.If you can survive that we'll move onto Proto's pick, <a href="https://boxd.it/25A2" rel="nofollow">Barry Lyndon</a>. Proto bringing Kubes (Kubrick) back onto the pod after a controversial episode from years gone by. After that Danny had quite enough of this flim-flam and picked <a href="https://boxd.it/1USk" rel="nofollow">Smokey and the Bandit</a>. Those jeans alone... Finally, we closed out the month with Mia and her fave movie.As always, you <a href="http://vhsvillage.com/" rel="nofollow">buy prints of Danny's artwork</a> and listen along using the links on <a href="https://70mmpod.com/" rel="nofollow">70mmpod.com</a>. Maybe even join the VHS Village Discord over at our <a href="https://www.patreon.com/70mm" rel="nofollow">Patreon</a>?

Friends, if you aren't caught up yet on the <a href="https://letterboxd.com/70mmpod/story/70mm-movies-about-movies/edit/apple.co/70mm">podcast</a>, during the month of January we focused on movies from the 1970s. We even had Letterboxd West Coast Editor <a href="https://letterboxd.com/brat/">Mia Vicino</a> as a guest to choose our final movie of the month. <a href="https://boxd.it/1f4e">Opening Night</a> fans rejoice.

To kick things off we chose <a href="https://boxd.it/4kJC">Scenes from a Marriage</a> as a team pick to start the month. Our community was initially excited for this month but oh boy then we started choosing long foreign movies. Next up, they said it couldn't be done; slim chose <a href="https://boxd.it/T18">Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles</a>. Sight & Sound forced his hand, he said. It's time to watch something new and feel something, he said.

If you can survive that we'll move onto Proto's pick, <a href="https://boxd.it/25A2">Barry Lyndon</a>. Proto bringing Kubes (Kubrick) back onto the pod after a controversial episode from years gone by. After that Danny had quite enough of this flim-flam and picked <a href="https://boxd.it/1USk">Smokey and the Bandit</a>. Those jeans alone... Finally, we closed out the month with Mia and her fave movie.

As always, you <a href="http://vhsvillage.com/">buy prints of Danny's artwork</a> and listen along using the links on <a href="https://70mmpod.com/">70mmpod.com</a>. Maybe even join the VHS Village Discord over at our <a href="https://www.patreon.com/70mm">Patreon</a>?

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slim’s ★★★★½ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

Merry Christmas!He reveals that he’s having an affair and leaving her and then they both compliment his mistress’s lovely breasts. Years later she talks about how she porked her psychiatrist a few times. Can someone tell me what is going on in Sweden?More soon on a very special <a href="http://70mmpod.com/" rel="nofollow">70mm podcast</a>.

Danny’s diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

If this were scenes from my marriage, the scene after I confessed my affair would be my funeral and my movie would be a crisp 75 minutes long. More on <a href="https://solo.to/70mm" rel="nofollow">70mm.</a>

protolexus’s ★★★★ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

i love reading for 3 hours. next on 70mm

Aaron Zani’s ★★★½ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

Great up until the end where it just is announced everyone is sleeping with like 10 different people. Can someone explain why affairs are so glorified in films? They make my skin crawl.

Thomas’s ★★★★ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

We love each other in an earthly and imperfect way. I’ve been wanting to get to this one for a while and decided to watch the shortened theatrical cut with plans to watch the longer television version before the remake comes out later this year. It’s an intimate story of a married couple whose relationship deteriorates, focusing on the mixed feelings they have for each other and how their separation affects them individually for the worse or better over the course of a decade. It’s my first introduction to Bergman and I was drawn in by the close-quarters camera work; he chooses to fill the entire frame with the faces of his two leads, so you have no choice but to experience their emotion as they do. It’s a dialogue marathon film and probably the most I’ve ever read during a film as it’s in Swedish. It’s worth the runtime even if it does feel long, as the depth to which we’re able to get to know these characters is vital and Liv Ullman is special in her performance.

Zachary Mulligan’s ★★★★ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

Criterion Challenge 2023<blockquote>#28. Scenes From A Marriage (From Jane Campion’s Top 10)</blockquote>1/52to kick off my <a href="https://boxd.it/js18S" rel="nofollow">Criterion Challenge 2023</a> i’m starting out of order with my #28 pick Scenes From A Marriage. I’m starting with #28 because the guys over at <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3VukCx4vhlILNV3JCnf8by?si=CZPmzU7uSAijMeJiLffpgg" rel="nofollow">70mm</a> are covering it on the pod so i figured this would be a good way to start. i’ve never done any kind of challenge like this before so i’m very excited. i’m looking forward to seeing some films that i never thought i’d ever watch and broadening my love and appreciation for film. so Scenes From A Marriage…wow. it’s definitely hard to try to rate a movie like this because it’s an excellent film and so incredibly acted and written but it’s just not fun to watch at all. it’s really uncomfortable watching this film it feels so real, which is a real feat. Liv Ullmann is phenomenal in this her performance feels so genuine and real and it’s just astonishing. all of their fights i was like watching through my hands it was so uncomfortable especially right before they sign the divorce papers. Johan is an absolute piece of garbage i hated him, he has got issues out the wazoo and needs help not an affair. it’s just so hard to watch him on screen i just want to strangle him. he does not give a rip about anybody but himself, it’s so frustrating to watch. you’re gonna leave your wife and 2 kids because your sad? because you’re wife doesn’t meet your sexual expectations? i mean what a scum bag. then i couldn’t believe they both cheat on their respective spouses with each other at the end. i mean what is going on here??the very idea of someone having an affair, cheating, being unfaithful whatever you want to call it, even the very idea of it is something i will never understand. i cannot comprehend how anyone in any situation can have an affair and try to justify it, it is extraordinarily selfish. i feel like it’s a pretty common thing to happen in our culture amongst both older and younger people i feel like it’s just a thing that happens, which is so sad. there’s so much more i can say about all of this but i won’t for the sake of this letterboxd review. this film does an excellent job of showing a glimpse of what it’s like to live in this kind of dysfunctional relationship and how each persons actions can affect the other and so many other people so deeply, but especially the people closest to them.everyone in this film needs therapy.

Joseph (JoeJazzy)’s ★★★★ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

It is really strange how something can be so unenjoyable and hard to watch and yet be so good and compelling at the same time. Acting is out of the park in this, conversations felt real as hell. I can’t imagine watching the 5 hour version, this felt like plenty for me. These are some real flawed characters, everyone needed some therapy here.

middlecasey’s diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

I don’t know how to rate movies like this. Do you rate based on your lack of enjoyment or just ignore that because you know it’s a “good film”?That is just to say: I mostly hated this. While watching it I was reminded of a true story I read once where a woman’s husband told her he didn’t love her anymore and wanted a divorce and she basically said too bad and didn’t let him leave, because she knew the real problem was that he had personal shit to work through and why should she be left to raise 2 young kids alone just because he was sad? And he got the help he needed, and they stayed together and he realized he didn’t want to actually leave his family, etc.Anyway. Johan sucked the most in this, and he really REALLY needed some help, not a mistress.

Robert’s ★★★★ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

First and foremost Liv Ullman’s acting in this is truly on a different level. She imbues so much depth into her character’s arc. The scene where she digs into how the way she was raised led to the woman she became and then we cut to Johan having fallen asleep, is perfection and emblematic of everything I love about Bergman. The terribly unhealthy cycles of their relationship was as fascinating as it was true-to-life. The abuse scene is downright horrifying and done in a way that manages to not feel exploitative like other films that include similar scenes can.As much as I LOVED most of it, there were some parts that made me really uncomfortable (mainly the first ten minutes or so each time they get back together), and there’s a good and bad uncomfortable and this wasn’t a good one. I definitely want to see the TV version. I think the way they turned it into a film was brilliant but Im interested to see other parts get more fleshed out.

Megan’s ★★★★½ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

Ben Jessup’s ★★★ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

Not my favorite Bergman. I bet this one will resonate more later in life. <a href="https://boxd.it/5AnkQ" rel="nofollow">Bergman ranked</a>

Emily’s ★★★★ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

Odd to call a three hour film a blunt instrument, but that's what this is in comparison to the miniseries version. This is a review about my thoughts on the differences between the versions - see my other Scenes review for my thoughts on the content of the film. I very much miss the inclusion of certain scenes (Marianne in the hospital!) yet it does bring certain others to the forefront (Marianne with her client!). Certain scenes feel less impactful (namely, the first summer cottage scene still hits hard, but it hits like a FREIGHT TRAIN in the miniseries version). As a film by itself, it is still jam packed with people making each other miserable. So it's a delight, but it pales in comparison to the miniseries!

ragde515’s ★★★ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

Sander’s ★★★★ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

Painful realistic. A lot of incredible scenes with the best acting I have ever seen. Might not be the first date movie though. I read that after the release of this movie the divorce rates in Europe were rising. That is what you call an influential movie.

EwanS93’s ★★★★ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

My first Bergman. A pretty gruelling but beautifully acted watch. I wish I had opted for the miniseries as there were scenes where I was completely enthralled but I definitely could have done with a few breaks. Even so it is very, very good. Johan is just the worst.

groogruxdave’s ★★★½ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

There was a moment in my life where I lived with my ex for a little over a month after our break up. There were scenes in this where the feelings and conversations resonated so deep my bones were vibrating. I could also feel the same anxiety induced stomach aching during those same conversations and honestly did not make this a physically fun watch at times.Certainly that is what film should do right? Spark an emotional response? Should it get all the stars or none? Well my response is: I'll likely never watch this again for a long time, if at all. For my own sanity.This is all to say that Marianne is no saint but junkyard Swedish Elliot Gould is the worst.

Mike’s ★★★½ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

A film featuring some of the driest, off-kilter, yet moderately passionate kissing scenes in all of cinema.

mike’s ★★½ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

Appreciated the incredible acting, but this was not enjoyable

Jonas Knutsson’s ★★★★ diary entry for Scenes from a Marriage

It's fascinating how you can make a film feeling this intimate with such small means. And it was a tough watch as it hit a little bit too close to home in the first hour.It was however too long. Things started repeating each time they got back together and I think it could have been done a bit more elegantly. It has aged a little bit, and the lines are delivered in old style theatrical Swedish. For most of the movie it works, but sometimes it shines through too much.