Scenes from a Marriage
- heavy
- slow-burn
- intense
- bleak
- signature
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · Scenes from a Marriage (1973) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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