Some people claim that you should not touch anything that Ingmar Bergman was involved in. Tomas Alfredson is not one of those people.
Tomas Alfredson on Remaking Ingmar Bergman's Steamy Infidelity Drama 'Faithless' as a TV Series
"Not everything Bergman did was genius, but a lot of it was," he tells Variety. The Swedish director is behind the new series "Faithless," which premieres in Toronto and is based on the 2000 film directed by Liv Ullman and written by Bergman himself.
“This is his most autobiographical work. Ever. He started it several times and couldn’t finish it because he was so tormented by guilt. There was something in this material that I felt I could approach in a different way. It would be different if I were remaking ‘The Seventh Seal’ or ‘Fanny and Alexander,’ but this? It was open to reinterpretation.”
Alfredson, known for “Let the Right One In” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” has created a show that is “very much separate from the original,” he emphasizes. Even though Lena Endre returns in the role of Marianne, tormented by the affair from the past.
