Scenes From a Marriage
PREMIERES Sunday, Sept. 12, 9/8c, HBO
was ripping myself open,” says Jessica Chastain, explaining why this remake of Ingmar Bergman’s groundbreaking 1973 Swedish miniseries about a troubled marriage was, emotionally, the most difficult experience of, )—filmed in riveting 20-minute takes—changes the story by making unsatisfied wife/mother/tech executive Mira the one who wants to leave. He also scripted her academic husband, Jonathan (Oscar Isaac), as an ex–Orthodox Jew, like himself, and more sensitive than the chauvinistic spouse Erland Josephson played opposite Liv Ullmann in the original. Here, Chastain sets the stage.
