Faithless (2000) is a serious movie. Serious about its subject of affair and divorce, and the scar that leaves, the pain it causes.
Directed by Liv Ullmann from a script from her mentor Ingmar Bergman, this Swedish movie is so not Hollywood. No soaring violins denoting pain and suffering, and no happy ending...new love found and life is happily ever after....nothing of the sort. Faithless is pretty raw emotionally and does not resort to trickery. In that way, it is hard to watch. But some of the truths make it worth watching.
When the husband discovers the affair, finding the lovers in bed together, his wife asks, "What now?" He says, somewhat quietly, "I don't know, but it will cause pain." It is a perfect moment...too true for most Hollywood movies.
The storyline does not play up our sympathies for any one character, no one comes out unscathed in the end, no one looks very noble. But it is painful to see the destruction that this choice makes. Inevitable once the choice is made, but the choice itself is not inevitable.
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