Tomas Alfredson Stands by Decision to Turn Bergman-Penned ‘Faithless’ Into Series: ‘It Would Be Different if I Remade “The Seventh Seal”’
variety.comMarta Balaga Some people claim you can’t touch anything Ingmar Bergman was involved in. Tomas Alfredson is not one of these people. “Not everything Bergman did was genius, but a lot of it was,” he tells Variety.
Swedish director is behind new series “Faithless,” premiering in Toronto and based on the 2000 film directed by Liv Ullman and written by Bergman himself. “This is his most autobiographical work.
Ever. He started writing it several times and couldn’t finish, because he was so tormented by guilt. There was something in this material I felt could tackle in a different way.
It would be different if I remade ‘The Seventh Seal’ or ‘Fanny and Alexander,’ but this? It was open for reinterpretation.” Alfredson, of “Let the Right One In” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” fame, made a show that’s “very free from the original,” he underlines.
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