SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE and MADELINE'S MADELINE (on CINE-FILE Chicago)

This week over at CINE-FILE, I wrote about Ingmar Bergman's great SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE. I also get a kick out of thinking about it in terms of Elvis Costello's capsule review of Gold, by that other great Swedish import, ABBA: "Fast songs: for nights entertaining your Australian friends, or playing with the dressing-up box. Slow songs: a pop-music version of Bergman’s SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE." The complete mini-series is playing this week at Gene Siskel Film Center. 

I should have added, one key to a successful relationship? Don't behave like the people in SCENE FROM A MARRIAGE. 

I also write about Josephine Decker's MADELINE'S MADELINE, which is, I think, a partial breakthrough. It's playing over at Music Box Theatre. Perhaps strangely, the film it most reminded me of, in its collage style, is the underground-style EAT THE DOCUMENT, by Bob Dylan, Howard Alk, and D.A. Pennebaker. 

To read both writeups, please pop over to CINE-FILE Chicago.