Thanks to reader “borstalboy” for requesting this week’s review. As always, for instructions on how to request the next review for this feature (to run the afternoon of Thursday, July 3 due to the holiday) see the bottom of this post.
On the surface, Faithless tells a story that’s been told thousands of times before. It’s a story of infidelity, with the fortyish Marianne (Lena Endre) falling in love with family friend David (Krister Henriksson), and leaving her husband Markus (Thomas Hanzon) to be with him. It’s an age-old story, familiar from plenty of novels, plays and films. There are numerous ways the story could play, perhaps as a thriller or a domestic melodrama. But in the end Faithless is neither of these, due in large part to a character I haven’t yet mentioned- the key character in the story. He’s a director played by Erland Josephson, who’s aging, thoughtful, solitary. A man not unlike Ingmar Bergman.
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