★★★★ (out of four stars) They have reached a truce called a happy truce. When we first met them, they were being interviewed, and they agreed that after ten years of marriage, they were a truly happy couple. The husband, John, was the most certain: he had a successful career, fell in love with his wife, had two daughters, and was liked by his friends as a gentleman. His wife, Marianne, listened hesitantly. When it was her turn, she said she was also very happy, although at work the direction she wanted to work towards was... but she was interrupted. We can never be sure what she will say. And, to be honest, he doesn't seem to care much. Of course, their marriage was perfect. And so, Ingmar Bergman's Married Life, the truest and most dazzling love story of all time, begins. Soon after the movie begins, John and Marianne's marriage will fall apart, but their love will not. They would argue and swear at each other, and it would be an unpleasant divorce, but in a fundamental sense, they were already close, and the memory of that closeness would stick with them for the rest of their lives. Bergman has been working on the subject of communication between the two for years. Once he called it "marital pain," who could forget the horrific accusations and spiritual bloodshed between husband and wife in "Winter Light" or "Anna's Lust"? In this movie, he seems to have finally resolved his crisis. In the years leading up to the film, there was a striking reconciliation in the work of the great artist. In Cries and Whispers, he is finally able to face death in a world where God seems silent. Now, in this almost heartbreaking masterpiece, he overcomes his fear that virtually everyone is an island. The film took him four months, he said, but it took a lifetime of experience. The couple are upper middle class in Sweden. He's a professor and she's a lawyer who specializes in family issues (i.e. divorce). They have two daughters, but have been off-painting. They are smart and independent. She really believes that their marriage is happy (although she doesn't enjoy sex much). One night, he came to their summer house and admitted that he had left and fell in love with another person. There was nothing he could do about it. He must leave her. His wife's reaction to it showed Liv Uman's almost infinite scope, a beautiful soul, a gifted performer. Her husband (Ellen Josephson spend a weekend. But it was full of memories, and they went to a nearby hut. In the final part of the film (titled "In the Dark Room at Midnight"), Marianne wakes up screaming from a nightmare, with John holding her. This is 20 years after their marriage and 10 years after their divorce. They are now middle-aged, but at night, they are still deeply in love and fearful lovers, relying on each other for comfort. This is what Bergman can accept, the source of his reconciliation: beyond love, beyond marriage, beyond the selfishness that destroys love, and beyond the centrifugal forces that prevent long-lasting relationships—all of which we still know each other, care about each other, and have two decades , these people are already intimate, they know they still remember, still need. Marianne and John are husband and wife only in the first part of the film, but the rest are also scenes of their marriage. spend a weekend. But it was full of memories, and they went to a nearby hut. In the final part of the film (titled "In the Dark Room at Midnight"), Marianne wakes up screaming from a nightmare, with John holding her. This is 20 years after their marriage and 10 years after their divorce. They are now middle-aged, but at night, they are still deeply in love and fearful lovers, relying on each other for comfort. This is what Bergman can accept, the source of his reconciliation: beyond love, beyond marriage, beyond the selfishness that destroys love, and beyond the centrifugal forces that prevent long-lasting relationships—all of which we still know each other, care about each other, and have two decades , these people are already intimate, they know they still remember, still need. Marianne and John are husband and wife only in the first part of the film, but the rest are also scenes of their marriage.
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