Scenes from a Marriage (1973)

Storyline :

Scenes from a Marriage 1973 Ten years of Marianne and Johans relationship are presented We first meet them ten years into their marriage He is a college professor, she a divorce lawyer They say that they are happily married unlike their friends Katarina and Peter who openly fight, especially when under the influence of alcohol but there is a certain detached aloofness in the way they treat each other In the next ten years, as they contemplate or embark upon divorce andor known extramarital affairs, they come to differing understandings at each phase of their relationship of what they truly mean to each other Regardless of if its love or hate between which there is a fine line they also come to certain understandings of how they can best relate to each other, whether that be as husband and wife, friends, lovers or none of the above