Jessica Chastain and real-life pal Oscar Isaac redo Bergman

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Jessica Chastain has been friends with Oscar Isaac since their Julliard days but says it was “a blessing and a curse” to play his woman successful a remake of Ingmar Bergman’s classical “Scenes From a Marriage.” The movie premiered Saturday astatine the Venice Film Festival. It was a blessing due to the fact that they didn’t request to get to cognize 1 different and could beryllium brutally honorable with 1 another. But it was besides a curse due to the fact that they couldn’t instrumentality a interruption from their togetherness. The task reimagines successful a modern American discourse the unravelling of a matrimony depicted successful Bergman’s 1973 Swedish tv miniseries that starred Bergman’s longtime partner, Liv Ullmann. It’s a five-episode HBO bid directed by Hagai Levi.