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Article: MORALITY PLAY.(Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 2, 2001
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Film of painful memories provokes thought on choices we make
In Ingmar Bergman's and Liv Ullmann's new film "Faithless" (he wrote the script, she did the filming), a relationship between a man and a woman is described as "friendship in damnation." While this phrase would fit male-female relationships in many Bergman films and is exceptionally apt in "Faithless," it certainly does not describe the professional relationship between Bergman, the Swedish author and director, and Ullmann, the Norwegian actress turned director.
Though Bergman and Ullmann disagree on important subjects -- God, love, death, art -- their artistic collaboration has contributed to ...