Faithless
by Liv Ullmann
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Actor: Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson, Lena Endre, Michelle Gylemo, Thomas HanzonDirector: Liv Ullmann
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language); Swedish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 142 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: First Look Pictures
Movie Reviews of Faithless
Movie Review: Penetrating exploration of feelings
Summary: 5 Stars
Some viewers complained that the movie is boring. I was so mesmerized by it that although I caught it on one of my Fio channels at 1:00 a.m., I had to watch it to the end, at 3:30 a.m. This is one of the most compelling of Bergman's scripts. Although he had often dealt with remorse before, I don't remember him focusing with such intensity on a young girl--Marianne's daughter--the innocent victim of her mother's faithlessness. Whenever Marianne remembers how she wrecked her daughter's life through her reckless affair with the director Bergman, her anguish is so searing and visceral that it seems the world has just stopped breathing. It is here that Lena Endre's riveting performance transcends even its excellent self, reaching a spiritual depth (or is it height?) that holds us captive in her and our own humanity. The wages of sin is a cliche that doesn't begin to unpack the poignancy of the mother's regret, always mixed with a devilish sense of irresponsibility which sweeps her along to further exploits of adultery. She is helplessly trapped in her affair while her daughter is left alone and irreparably damaged. It is the painful rift between mother and daughter that gives this drama its profound tragic sense, akin to the relentless familial devastations of Greek tragedy.
Bergman's script surprises not only in its insight into a mother-daughter relationship, but also in its articulation of a woman's emotional world. As far as I can remember, no other work of his puts the woman's inner world front and center and explores it with lucidity, detail, and eloquence. The only question I have for Bergman--wherever he is now--concerns his view of infidelity as human fate, sealed within our human DNA. There is no Bergman without betrayal. Moreover, his betraying husbands and wives commit their betrayals almost thoughtlessly. Yes, they are often portrayed in anguished and tragic conflicts, but these conflicts kick in after the betrayal, not before. Although in our cynical culture many view adultery as trivial, I do not and neither does Bergman, but he doesn't explain it. Was she unhappy with her husband? Was she "addicted" to her lover? Was she attracted to "sin" and the inevitable suffering it brings? Betraying a husband or a wife seems to me the mother of all betrayals, and I usually want to know why people deceive their loved ones. However, I am certainly not going to get the answer from Bergman who sees betrayal as a given, an essential human element, inseparable from love.
Ullman's direction is wonderful! It illuminates this script from within and adds warmth and color to the typically bare Bergman's setting. It furthermore rounds Bergman's harsh corners without sacrificing depth or intensity. The wind-shaped trees are so fine! And so is every piece of furniture in that room, especially the window sill where Marianne starts her astonishing story. The old director's mostly wordless reactions to Marianne's story are as artistically accomplished and moving as her shimmering verbal waterfalls. The two are thirstily drinking each other's utterances, whether in silence or in speech, for the intimate understanding and reckoning which had heretofore escaped them.
This is a masterpiece, any way you look at it.
Summary of Faithless
Lyrical passionate and enigmatic faithless begins with a writer named bergman who summons his muse marianne to recall a love affair of long ago. As she discusses ideas for the story she is transformed into the main character of this passionate and reckless love story. Studio: First Look Home Entertain Release Date: 07/22/2003 Run time: 142 minutes Rating: R Director: Liv UllmannArt House & International DVD Video
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