Faithless (2000)
(Trolösa)
Country: SV/NOR/FIN/IT/GER
Technical: col 154m
Director: Liv Ullmann
Cast: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson
Synopsis:
Through the ghosts of his past an ageing film director relives memories of a love triangle in which he took an actress away from her conductor husband and young daughter, only to turn against her when she needed him most.
Review:
From a Bergman screenplay, this heavily autobiographical tale spreads the blame more evenly than this synopsis might suggest, the wife leaping into the void with gay abandon from the outset, but how much of that is guilt attenuation on the part of the author is a moot point. Inordinately long, and treading a familiar path through idle attraction and passion to breakup, the treatment is typically Swedish in its unsensational sex, sense of foreboding and bleakness of conclusion (the participants either die or are left in tormented solitude). It is, however, undeniably well done and sober warning to any contemplating a dalliance (cf. Fatal Attraction, Damage)!
(Trolösa)
Country: SV/NOR/FIN/IT/GER
Technical: col 154m
Director: Liv Ullmann
Cast: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson
Synopsis:
Through the ghosts of his past an ageing film director relives memories of a love triangle in which he took an actress away from her conductor husband and young daughter, only to turn against her when she needed him most.
Review:
From a Bergman screenplay, this heavily autobiographical tale spreads the blame more evenly than this synopsis might suggest, the wife leaping into the void with gay abandon from the outset, but how much of that is guilt attenuation on the part of the author is a moot point. Inordinately long, and treading a familiar path through idle attraction and passion to breakup, the treatment is typically Swedish in its unsensational sex, sense of foreboding and bleakness of conclusion (the participants either die or are left in tormented solitude). It is, however, undeniably well done and sober warning to any contemplating a dalliance (cf. Fatal Attraction, Damage)!
(Trolösa)
Country: SV/NOR/FIN/IT/GER
Technical: col 154m
Director: Liv Ullmann
Cast: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson
Synopsis:
Through the ghosts of his past an ageing film director relives memories of a love triangle in which he took an actress away from her conductor husband and young daughter, only to turn against her when she needed him most.
Review:
From a Bergman screenplay, this heavily autobiographical tale spreads the blame more evenly than this synopsis might suggest, the wife leaping into the void with gay abandon from the outset, but how much of that is guilt attenuation on the part of the author is a moot point. Inordinately long, and treading a familiar path through idle attraction and passion to breakup, the treatment is typically Swedish in its unsensational sex, sense of foreboding and bleakness of conclusion (the participants either die or are left in tormented solitude). It is, however, undeniably well done and sober warning to any contemplating a dalliance (cf. Fatal Attraction, Damage)!