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Article: Ominous Appetites.(Review)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 5, 2001
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Even though he only wrote it, and didn't direct it, Faithless may be Ingmar Bergman's most personal film. But then, it was directed by Liv Ullmann, who has known him as intimately and as long as anyone. The film deals with a painful story from Bergman's past that seems to have been a thorn in his side. In many of his films, Bergman has allowed bits of it to dribble out, but here he confronts it head-on with an expiating heart. He concentrates on the woman he wronged, a long-ago mistress now dead. Miss Ullmann, herself a longtime former mistress, who contributes much more than routine direction, was the right person to add the woman's-eye view.
Faithless is the ...
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