Faithless

It's solid and heavy handed drama. If Bergman had shot the script, the movie would lean towards artistic impression where long dialogues are negative spaced by moments of silence. Ullman obviously plays on feelings which are on their own believable, but as an endless flood becomes tiresome. Still Faithless as a whole holds up well.

While Lena put on an acting clinic, this just didn't move me quite like SFAM, nonetheless still excellent. Also, good job Liv. She must have had one hell of a mentor.

An ageing script writer conjures up an ex to help him forgive himself for his relationship choices, and it backfires big time. Faithless has moments of excruciatingly painful drama that can stand alongside pretty much anything in Bergman's career, and Ullmann's flitting back and forth between then and now is very effective, but at 2 1/2 hours it could have done with a fair bit of trimming and a lot less narration.

Moments of pain, moments of boredom, moments of Josephson staring off into space. Rarely a moment passes that doesn't leave me with regret that Bergman couldn't finish this himself, problems seem to arise in every facet. I can't decide if the good outweighs the bad.

An unusual idea, and the themes are pure Bergman, but excessive narration bogs it down. Lots of long flashbacks with voice-over telling us how the characters felt. It's very cold and distancing. Show, don't tell. Underdeveloped and overlong at 150 minutes, but some moments of good insight make it somewhat worthwhile.

Endre's performance is intense, but it's all a bit much.

Infiel estreava há 20 anos no Festival de Cannes. Bergman, como todos nós, era uma pessoa horrível, mas sabia transformar o horror do ser humano em arte, nesse roteiro semi-biográfico ele coloca a sua persona nas mãos de uma mulher que o entendera como ninguém, não só pela parceria amorosa e profissional, mas também pelas décadas de amizade mantida, melhor ainda fazendo-o do ponto de vista feminino e que talvez seja o grande momento da carreira da Liv Ullmann na direção. DVDRip MKO.