'Scenes from a Marriage': Ingmar Bergman's entry into streaming world
However, Scenes from a Marriage was an immediate success and earned the Scandinavian director his largest international audience to date, at the time of being edited for its premiere in cinemas in 1974.Critics described him as "stimulant" (The New Yorker);The "most lucid and sober movie that Bergman has made" (The New York Times), and even now, the piece leaves its mark on independent filmmakers: from Richard Linklater to Noah Baumbach and Mia Hansen-Løve, whose work Bergman Island (set in Fårö) had its debut in Cannes this spring.
But neither Scenes from a Marriage nor any other Bergman title had reharmed for the screens until this year.This is how HBO will premiere an American adaptation, in five parts, by the Israeli writer and director Havi (known by The Affair and In Treatment).
The new series moves Bergman's story from Sweden to Boston;With Johan played at that time by Erland Josephsson, now becoming Jonathan thanks to actor Oscar Issac;And the Marianne de Liv Ullmann is now called Mira, and is played by Jessica Chastain.(In a sweet tribute to her predecessor and also former director, Jessica Chastain published on Instagram a photo of her and Ullman last November, writing: "There will only be one Marianne.Liv Ullmann is a goddess and I love her ").
Levi, whose Israeli series Betipul subsequently inoculated HBO's in treatment production, was promoting Betipul in Stockholm when someone approached him."Say some press conferences where I talked about the inspiration I obtained from one of the Scenes from a Marriage," he tells us through a so -called zoom route.
"Not long later, I received a mail from Bergman's son, Daniel".That happened about 8 years ago."I think he has the perfect mixture of irreverence and terror necessary when assuming a project like this," says Michael Ellenberg, Scenes Executive Producer from a Marriage.“So although he said yes, he was not yet prepared to start it;Until he really could handle what he wanted to do with this project ".
