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Spoiler-free premise

Across a decade, lawyer Marianne and professor Johan move through marriage, separation, other relationships, and recurring attempts at intimacy.

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Marianne and Johan initially present their ten-year marriage as enviably stable, but an unexpected disclosure breaks its routines. Six chapters follow separation, anger, affairs, legal negotiation, and later meetings in which attachment persists without restoring the old structure.

Why it belongs

Through ruthless close-ups and Ullmann and Josephson's willingness to expose contradictory feeling, Scenes from a Marriage makes unbroken conversation electrifying.

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Plain rooms, long takes, minimal music, changing hair and clothing, and faces held after speech strip away social distraction. Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson make intimacy a shifting practice of cruelty, recognition, performance, and need.

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Golden Globes1 win1975 · official film record ↗
Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language1975 · Scenes From a Marriageofficial film record ↗

Totals include every recorded competitive win. Only Picture or top-film honors, Direction, Screenplay, and lead or supporting performances are named.

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Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250—AFI 100—
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Great Cinema Master List scores

Greatness9.2
Engagement8.7
Ease7.8

Swedish · Not Rated
Narrative Feature
Mood: Romantic & Reflective