Faithless (2000 film)

Infobox Film
name = Faithless


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director = Liv Ullmann
producer = Maria Curman
Kaj Larsen
Johan Mardell
writer = Ingmar Bergman
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starring = Lena Endre Erland Josephson Krister Henriksson
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cinematography = Jörgen Persson
editing = Sylvia Ingemarsson
distributor = AB Svensk Filmindustri
released = 13 May, 2000
runtime = 154 mins
country = Sweden
language = Swedish
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imdb_id = 0157122

"Faithless" is a Swedish film directed by Liv Ullman from a script by Ingmar Bergman. The Swedish title is "Trolösa".

The story is loosely based on experiences of adultery from Bergman's own life.

The film is about an aging director named Bergman, who conjures in his imagination the central character, Marianne. Over a period of days, on his secluded Faro Island 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 Ullman, 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

Versions

Runtime // Argentina:152 min / Colombia:154 min / Denmark:155 min / Peru:152 min / UK:154 min / USA:142 min

*US DVD 2000, 2002: ISBN 1-59241-015-4 UPC 87797 94509:Rated R for sexual content, some nudity and language. 142 min. In Swedish with English subtitles.

External links

* [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010216/REVIEWS/102160302/1023 Review by Roger Ebert]
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