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Faithless (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 68

Fresh: 58

Rotten:10

Average Rating: 7.1/10

Consensus: This brooding, measured look at adultery is ultimately emotionally riveting, thanks to its script and performances.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sexual content, some nudity and language

Runtime: 2 hrs 22 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Jan 26, 2001 Limited

Synopsis: Directed by Liv Ullmann from a script by Ingmar Bergman and starring Lena Endre and Erland Josephson, FAITHLESS is a story of passion and infidelity based on a real event in Bergman’s past. A... Directed by Liv Ullmann from a script by Ingmar Bergman and starring Lena Endre and Erland Josephson, FAITHLESS is a story of passion and infidelity based on a real event in Bergman’s past. A sensation at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where Lena Endre’s bravura lead performance was justly celebrated, the film has also been featured at the Toronto, Telluride, New York and Montreal film festivals. FAITHLESS will have its U.S. theatrical release in late January 2001.

Lyrical, passionate, and enigmatic, FAITHLESS begins with a writer named Bergman (Erland Josephson, who co-starred with Ullmann in Bergman’s 1974 Scenes From a Marriage) summoning his muse in the form of a memory. Marianne (Lena Endre) appears to Bergman as he sits down to write a script about a love affair of long ago. As she discusses ideas for the story with Bergman, she is transformed into the main character of the film that he is now writing.

Marianne Vogler is a successful actress happily married to Markus (Thomas Hanzon), an orchestra conductor much in demand for overseas concerts and devoted to her young daughter Isabelle (Michelle Gylemo). Into this easy equation steps family friend David (Krister Henriksson), a film director notorious for his reckless attitude toward relationships. Marianne’s friendship with David develops into passion, and they yield to temptation, traveling to Paris to indulge in an affair that then continues upon their return to Sweden.

Eventually Markus, who has suspected the affair all along, confronts the faithless couple, his wife and friend, in the very bedroom they have been meeting in. He demands divorce and custody of Isabelle. Marianne begs Markus to let her have Isabelle, but he refuses. What began as a casual affair threatens to destroy a marriage, a friendship, a family, and a man.

Despite the film’s dark themes, Lena Endre triumphs with her radiant performance. Onscreen for most of the film, Endre’s Marianne is a woman whose passion and intelligence makes her choices a story of unforgettable emotional power.

Liv Ullmann’s second film based on a Bergman screenplay (1997’s Private Confessions was the first), FAITHLESS is the latest of many collaborations between Bergman and Ullmann. Ullmann has been featured as an actress in nine of the director’s greatest films including Persona (1966), Scenes From A Marriage (1974), and Autumn Sonata (1978). Filled with references to Bergman’s films and to his life as a man and an artist, FAITHLESS is timeless meditation upon relationships between women, men, art and love. [More]

Starring: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson, Tomas Hanzon

Starring: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson, Tomas Hanzon, Michelle Gylemo, Juni Dahr

Director: Liv Ullmann

Director: Liv Ullmann
Screenwriter: Ingmar Bergman
Composer: Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films

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This could be a regretful remembrance of things past on the part of "Bergman" or it could be a pure fiction torn from the ether.

Full Review Source: House Next Door | comment Comment
04/19/08
Keith Uhlich
House Next Door

Faithless comes with a pedigree that's hard to beat.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
N/R

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01/26/06
Time Out
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No review available.

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06/30/05
Emanuel Levy
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It's a movie that shows us that the silence between two people can be more dramatic than 100 pages of dialogue.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
02/21/04
Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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N/R

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12/15/03
Alexander Walker
Daily Mail [UK]

Slow, but involving Ullman-Bergman collaboration.

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10/15/03
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Faithless is a journey worth taking, but it's best to travel alone.

Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | comment Comment
03/04/03
Harry Guerin
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

It's a provocative, deeply detailed film, finely crafted both in the studio and in the editing room by Ullman.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
02/27/03
Rich Cline
Film Threat

The then over-amplification of psychiatric-like meetings and counseling and the trivial and pedestrian matter of the affair are drowned in a mawkish, morose and unendurable pacing.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
12/10/02
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com
N/R

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11/23/02
Cheryl DeWolfe
Apollo Guide
N/R

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11/20/02
Ebert & Roeper
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A probing look at love, marriage, fidelity, rivalry, and other deep-rooted emotional issues.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
11/20/02
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor

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11/20/02
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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Henriksson, Hanzon and Josephson are fine as well, but the film belongs to Endre and Gylemo.

Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
11/20/02
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

No longer seeking God and Truth, Bergman now searches for the more attainable goals of forgiveness and redemption.

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11/20/02
John A. Nesbit
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Without giving too much away, I can tell you that my response to these events was a thundering 'duh.'

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
11/20/02
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

Bergman has been far better at working out these themes than anything in Faithless would suggest.

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11/20/02
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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It's well worth seeing ... as long as two and a half hours of intense Swedish drama don't scare you off!

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11/20/02
Rich Cline
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