Word: faithlessly
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...tell TIME, the Taliban eminence Mullah Mohammed Omar arrived in Kandahar, the regime's stronghold in southern Afghanistan. He had spent days holed up in a mountain fortress ducking U.S. bombs, and in the meantime his regime had been pummeled. When he got back to Kandahar, Omar fired two faithless deputies and passed the word that he would deliver the noon sermon at the Halqa Cherif mosque. The mosque houses a robe said to have belonged to the Prophet Muhammad, so Omar must have figured the Americans would never bomb it. U.S. commanders may have known he was there...
...calls it Faithless, and since he no longer directs films, he has given it to his onetime star and sometime lover, Liv Ullmann, to direct. It is, they both insist, very much her film. Bergman visited her set only once and never intruded on her editing room. Her style is warm, almost glowing, and it makes an ironic comment on a harrowing narrative. More important, her manner may grant Bergman something he cannot grant himself--forgiveness for bad behavior that has haunted him for a half-century. "He wants a woman's vision," says Ullmann, "a woman's experience...
...Faithless, a character called Bergman (the elder version is played by Erland Josephson, who also knows, as Ullmann puts it, about "being older, being alone, fearing death") sits alone in his study. He is dreaming this movie. In the process he conjures up his old love, called Marianne and played by the luminous Lena Endre, who settles in to offer her reflections on the history they shared...
Here Bergman has fictionalized or, possibly, is revealing more than he has before. What is obvious is that the law of unintended consequences stirs steadily beneath the surface of Faithless. Its largest impact is on Marianne's nine-year-old daughter, devastated by the breakup of a seemingly contented marriage, who then, of all horrendous things, is invited to join her father in suicide. It is her innocent victimhood--her betrayal by heedless adults--that emerges most clearly and movingly in the film...
...direction is further borne out by the seven songs she wrote herself, which may well account for the more personal, introspective quality that distinguishes this CD from its predecessor. "Little Sparrow" explores the darker, more fable-like side of the genre; there are repeated references to infant deaths and faithless lovers, and both the title track and her collaboration with the Irish band Altan on her 30-year-old "Down From Dover" evoke the appropriate sense of dread. But in the most ambitious of these efforts, the mountain-gothic "Mountain Angel," Parton's narrative of a woman driven...