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Ingmar Bergman wrote the screenplay for this drama of love, marriage, and infidelity, which was directed by one of his best-known leading ladies, Liv Ullmann. Bergman (Erland Josephson) is an aging filmmaker who invites an actress (Lena Endre) to his office to help him work on a character for an upcoming screenplay. The character, Marianne Volger (also played by Endre), is a well-known actress married to an internationally-successful symphony conductor, Markus (Thomas Hanzon). Marianne and Markus are close friends with David (Krister Henriksson), a filmmaker with a cavalier attitude toward money, career, and life in general. While Markus is away on one of his frequent concert tours, Marianne and David begin having an affair. When Markus finds out about his wife's infidelity, he files for divorce, demanding sole custody of their daughter Isabelle (Michelle Gylemo). Isabelle soon finds herself caught in the middle of an ugly war of wills between her mother and father. Faithless was screened in competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.