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Venice 78: The new Scenes from a wedding

Scenes from a wedding, 2021 edition. The crisis of a couple, between betrayals, lies, silences, unspoken, anger, revenge, sex, love. Fifty years later, Hagai Levi reinterprets the work of Ingmar Bergman in an Hbo series with Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, presented at the Venice Film Festival and on Sky and Now TV from 20 September.

In 1973, Bergman analyzes a couple’s dissolution in a drama which he then readjusts into a film. the film was followed by an increase in divorces in Scandinavia.

Now we are in 2021, divorces are the norm we are in America where we ask ourselves which pronouns to use before speaking to each other and in which the roles have been reversed: today it is she who betrays and leaves the marital roof, who is also the head of the family , the one who brings the money home, while he devotes himself more to the house and his daughter.

The crisis is triggered by an event that seems to find a wife and husband in agreement: an abortion. Because she doesn’t want another child, he would like him but he cares about her happiness. But maybe the deal is just a façade, for sure it’s the beginning of the end (“No couple joins with an abortion,” she will say). There is a betrayal, but above all there are the claims, the feelings of guilt, the truths that come to light at very high costs. There is a lot of talk, it is seriality of the word, theater filmed with the camera, all shot indoors, in which the house is the third protagonist of the story. Minimalism, great dialogues supported by two excellent actors, friends in life and former classmates.

He writes and directs the five episodes Hagai Levi, one who has made his core business of psychology and betrayal: it is the signature of the sublime In Treatment, a series consisting of sessions of psychotherapy, and of The Affair, on the story of couples who betray, love and destroy each other.

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