Book description
"In Emily Mann's highly theatrical adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's popular 1974 film Scenes from a marriage, audiences are invited into an intimate stage space to collectively experience the human politics of a relationship, through all the stages of life--from youth to middle age to maturity"--Page [4] of cover.
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Why read it?
1 author picked Scenes from a Marriage as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I read Scenes from a Marriage as a chamber novel, not a screenplay, and I think it is one.
Two people who know each other too well to lie to each other, and who do it anyway, across six conversations. I love how Bergman lets them be cruel and tender in the same breath, and how I could never decide whose side I was on.
Every time I read it, I find a different person in the wrong.
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