When Ingmar Bergman created his Swedish miniseries Scenes from a marriage I did not imagine that more than 40 years later HBO would put two great Hollywood stars to make a remake destined to become one of the best series of the year.
Hagai Levi, director used to talk about complicated relationships as in The affair, update this classic and bet on a slow and cadent rhythm not suitable for the impatient.
The episodes begin offstage with a camera following the actors on set until filming begins. As a preview that reminds us that what at the end of the chapter really knows us, is actually a fiction in which Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac shine.
When action is heard we discover Jonathan and Mira, a married couple with a little 4-year-old daughter. He is a university professor of philosophy and she is an executive of a technology company.
With them we will explore not only the limits of love, but hatred, desire, monogamy and separation through a contemporary couple in which a momentous decision will set the starting point for the deterioration of their relationship.
Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac are the absolute protagonists from this look at a marriage in which both actors bring a unique depth to the characters of the series. Your desires, your secrets and your most absolute intimacy will be exposed in a sincere and unfiltered way. The actors and their chemistry (which we could observe on the red carpet in Venice) are to blame for what will be HBO’s next hit after The White Lotus.
They are, without a doubt, the reason why the series is worth rocking to the slow pace. They seem to want to devastate each other with their fantastic performances but at the same time they fit together in a natural and almost perfect way until they take over the scene and make it their own. Together. To the beat of a melody that seems to be made to measure.
With a weekly premiere of episodes, this complex tale about love has already conquered us, although It is not a series for everyone. Cadent, slow at times but deliberately and with so many layers that they seem to weigh over us, like a blanket in winter.
A strong dramatic charge that we already noticed in the first of the chapters and that will undoubtedly continue in the following in which it already is, one of the best series of the year on HBO.
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