April and Frank Wheeler are a young, thriving couple living with their two children in a Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. Their self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled in their relationships or careers. Frank is mired in a well-paying but boring office job, and April is a housewife still mourning the demise of her hoped-for acting career. Determined to identify themselves as superior to the mediocre sprawl of suburbanites who surround them, ...[Read Story ]
Filmed in the aftermath of Ingmar Bergman's break-up with Liv Ullmann on the island where they had lived together Dinner scene between the four characters is mostly improvised