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Matilde Ricon Peres
10May12
It becomes almost personal at a certain point. It gets you very uncomfortable just by watching the film and being aware of all the interactions between the couple. Kinda want to have sympathy towards Marianna, but it's like she keeps dissapointing me as the film goes by.
Joel
13Feb12
Absolutely suffocating. Possible the most intense film on relationships that will be hard to ever top. I found this film so heart-wrenching that I wanted to stop watching but found the intensity too much to put down. Many chunks of this film had my stomach in knots. Simply a masterwork of dialogue and chamber drama. All of the Bergman elements in full swing. A tough and brilliant masterpiece.
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T.J. Gossard
18Jan12
This movie made me scratch my butt alot, and then feel self-conscious about it for some reason.
thay
24Oct11
I was very insecure about this, even disappointed in the first minutes, but it turned out to be amazing! It was funny, moving and Liv Ullmann was simply flawless.
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Langston Young
3Oct11
The most affecting use of the close-up I've ever seen from Bergman. Absolutely beautiful film.
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Zachary George Najarian-Najafi
17Dec10
Just finished the Television version last night. Such an intense and suffocating film, the close-ups are so uncomfortable, just right there in your face, and there are scenes where I wanted to escape but Bergman just wouldn't allow it. I'm going to need to watch this whole thing straight through sometime. It's really something special.
KooterBrown
4Nov10
i wonder how much of this was autobiographical, if any. The husband clearly could care less about his kids. I thought I read somewhere that Bergman had a strange, strained and partially estranged relationship with his kids, though I might be wrong.
Clayton Godby
7Jun10
Didn't actually watch the movie, just the full television series, but I love it. A lot. I wanted to be able to back away and remove myself from it, but the frame is so close and intimate. You have to be right in the drama of it, which in the end you are grateful for.
Joshuah
8May10
Who makes a film that's 300 minutes long about a couple fighting... Bergman, yet it's brilliant, yet will scare the average person out of ever wanting to get married. Strindberg would have cried tears of joy, as his influence in Bergman is incredibly present in this film.
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traag-1
15Feb10
This is a work of pure genius and other than Allen's Husbands and Wives, the best portrayal of the stages of marriage on film I've seen! Both actors shine and give their characters various degrees of descending strength and weakness...Bergman's fly on the wall camera directing style has been compared to Cassavettes with whom I have great admiration for and didn't really agree until I saw this film all the way through...I saw Saraband which was Bergman's recent follow-up to these characters, before I had a chance to see this and because of it has created a whole new perspective on Saraband. a Must for fans of brutally honest dialogue and Bergman fans in general!
sjlykowski
26Jun09
This film may lead you to conclude that no long-term relationship can truly end in hate. Our desire to stay unafraid in such a dark world is enough to keep even the most selfish relationship alive. But lessons aside, watch it for the cinematography alone. Bergman said "the human face is the great subject of cinema," and after seeing this film, you'll believe him.
Phil Worfel
4Dec08
Incredibly dark and yet so hopeful at the end. Don't watch this with a significant other unless you have a Get Out of Jail Free card.
Derek Lajeunesse
29Nov08
My very favourite Bergman...and that's saying a lot. Ullman is incandescent as Marianne; how has this actress never won an Oscar? While not for all tastes, I could easily listen to Marianne and Johan rattle on for 6 more hours...fascinating.