Faithless (2000 film)

Faithless
Swedish DVD cover
Directed by	Liv Ullmann
Produced by	Maria Curman Kaj Larsen Johan Mardell
Written by	Ingmar Bergman
Starring	Lena Endre Erland Josephson Krister Henriksson
Cinematography	Jörgen Persson
Edited by	Sylvia Ingemarsson
Distributed by	AB Svensk Filmindustri
Release dates	13 May 2000
Running time	154 minutes
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish

Faithless (Swedish: Trolösa) is a Swedish film directed by Liv Ullman from a script by Ingmar Bergman. The story is loosely based on experiences of adultery from Bergman's own life. It was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot

An aging director named Bergman conjures in his imagination the central character, Marianne. Over a period of days, on his secluded Fårö refuge in the Baltic Sea, he interviews her to compose the story of her life-changing affair. She had been happily married to Markus, an orchestra conductor, with a young daughter Isabelle. She suddenly falls in love with their best friend David. They have an extended interlude in Paris and then must deal with the ramifications.

The style of the film is very cerebral, abstract, and ambiguous. The main potential audience is viewers familiar with the previous decades of work of Bergman and Ullmann, who may appreciate this meditative capstone to their careers and lives together.

Cast

• Lena Endre – Marianne
• Erland Josephson – Bergman
• Krister Henriksson – David
• Thomas Hanzon – Markus
• Michelle Gylemo – Isabelle
• Juni Dahr – Margareta
• Philip Zandén – Martin Goldman
• Thérèse Brunnander – Petra Holst
• Marie Richardson – Anna Berg
• Stina Ekblad – Eva
• Johan Rabaeus – Johan
• Jan-Olof Strandberg – Axel
• Björn Granath – Gustav
• Gertrud Stenung – Martha

External links

• Faithless at IMDb
• Review by Roger Ebert