Scenes From A Marriage

An Extraordinary Series. I Couldn’t Bear Watching it Again Precisely one month ago I gave a very detailed synopsis of HBO’s remake of Ingmar Bergman’s classic Scenes from a Marriage — what the original was about, how great the actors playing the leads before were in general, and I what…

Scenes From a Marriage, on HBO Max, is painful and at times excruciating to watch. (SPOILERS) Mira has just ripped open her marriage to Johnathan with a dull knife; she ever so abruptly, callously, disdainfully breaks up with Johnathan in a slow rewind and then a fast forward, as she…

In the 1973 original Ingmar Bergman Swedish mini-series, their names are Marianne and Johan. In Hagai Levi’s 2021 HBO version, their names are Mira and Jonathan. But I’ll call her Alice as in Jane Doe as in someone familiar but trying to forget because maybe you’ve been her. Alice. You…