It took me a couple viewing sessions to make my way through Liv Ullmann's Faithless, and not simply because it's a long movie. Mainly, it was simply a very raw and painful film, and it took a while to work through. It's easy to think of Liv Ullmann "merely" as an actress, but she's also a very talented director. The script was written by Ingmar Bergman himself, and he was clearly coming to grips with the damage that he had caused through his own well-documented infidelities. Lena Endre's performance as Marianne is staggeringly brilliant. The ending was not particularly satisfying, but the ending of affairs is never particularly satisfying either, so I guess there's some symmetry here. Highly recommended, although this would not qualify as a good date night selection.
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