Scenes From A Marriage (1974)

Lisa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three  two little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

Man was this a struggle.  I like Bergman - mostly. When he's good, he's great. And when he's not so good, he's still interesting. But I just could not care about these two smug, "ridiculously bougoise" characters. Five hours of them was about 3.5 hours too much.

And the overall theme of the story seemed overly familiar and boring. Bergman, of course, knows his audience is made up of women and liberal/leftist men. So, we get a more or less standard story of the wife "repressing" herself at the start and then growing in freedom and feminist wisdom as the story goes on, while the man - a bit of an egotisical male chauvanist - gets his just dessserts. 

 Summary: Wished I could have enjoyed it more, but sometimes these family dramas bore the hell out me. Ullmann and Josephson are excellent actors, but at 5 hours, this one needed Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.