Cha Cha Cha Changes
We've been editing like mad this week, preparing the film for a screening tomorrow morning. Late last night Bryan and I went to Waterloo Records to see if we could find some appropriate temp music to use in the film. We ended up pulling some tracks from a few different soundtracks.
I've been watching Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage, the television series version that the Criterion Collection put out. It is a fascinating series because he taps into the never-ending evolution of relationships. Johan and Marianne never really break up, even though they get a divorce. They go through denial, divorce, violence, infidelity, but the relationship always continues in some way or another. You think he's going to walk right out the door and then at the last minute both of them do an about-face and rush back into each other's arms. They'll make bold pronouncements about loneliness and love and then suddenly they'll realize that it's all just talk. On and on, over the course of years we see this couple change and grow, divorce and find each other again. It's sometimes hard to watch but it is never gratuitous or over the top. And it's not even that depressing really.
