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Films showing the reality of marriage

Caryn James
Features correspondent
HBO/Jojo Whilden (Credit: HBO/Jojo Whilden)HBO/Jojo Whilden

Screen depictions of troubled relationships reflect a changing society, writes Caryn James, as a new remake of the classic TV series Scenes from a Marriage premieres.

Some of today's best film and TV series are about the absolute worst marriages. "You hated me!" the husband in the brilliant film Marriage Story (2019) screams at his soon-to-be ex-wife, who screams back, "You hated me!"

"I hate your face," a man says in this year's funny and poignant comic-drama Together. The woman he lives with compares him to cancer and diarrhoea.  

And in the galvanising new HBO series Scenes from a Marriage, a remake of Ingmar Bergman's 1973 TV classic, the wife is about to walk out the door for good. Yelling and pleading, her furious husband, Jonathan (Oscar Isaac) says they should thrash out their relationship "until we figure out how to fix it". Mira (Jessica Chastain) snaps back, "I'm not attracted to you anymore, how do you fix window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'alternating-thumbnails-a', container: 'taboola-below-article', placement: 'Below Article', target_type: 'mix' });