Bergman Island

    Bergman Island
    2021

    Synopsis

    An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.

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    Cast

    • Vicky KriepsChris
    • Tim RothTony
    • Mia WasikowskaAmy
    • Anders Danielsen LieJoseph / Andres
    • Hampus NordensonHampus
    • Anki LarssonAse
    • Kerstin BrunnbergHedda
    • Melinda KinnamanBerit
    • Stig BjörkmanStig
    • Magnus AlmqvistProjectionist

    Recommandations

    • 100

      The Telegraph

      A late narrative gambit made me worry that Hansen-Løve was pushing her conceit a little too far into the realm of the meta, but it pays off with thrilling clarity and elegance.
    • 91

      IndieWire

      Bergman Island is a heart-stoppingly poignant stunner all the same — one beating inside a body of work that has always been seasick with the bittersweet vertigo that comes from looking at the past through the smudged lens of memory and imagination.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Delicate, droll and imbued with a haunting, understated wistfulness, Bergman Island wears its layers so lightly it may take you a while to notice just how much it’s got going on.
    • 80

      Variety

      If Bergman Island is a roman à clef about Mia Hansen-Løve and Olivier Assayas, it’s an oblique one. If it’s a “Before” film, it’s one that embeds a crucial element of emotional exploration in the educated guesswork of the audience. If it’s a cinephile shell game made with disarmingly clever sincerity — and I would say that’s just what it is — it’s one that leaves you grateful to have paid a visit to this island.
    • 80

      Time Out

      Although the story isn’t autobiographical, there’s a tang of lived experience here – of very personal feelings and important questions being channelled through these characters – that keeps its sunlit landscapes and island interactions ground with relatability.
    • 75

      Slant Magazine

      The film never sacrifices its ambiguity as it brings various threads about ghosts, relationships, art, and gender to a head.
    • 75

      The Film Stage

      Hansen-Løve’s cinema has reached higher ceilings than this, but it is a restorative sojourn just the same.
    • 73

      TheWrap

      Perhaps it’s a way for Hansen-Løve to show the way artists pick from their own lives, or maybe it’s a way to muddy the meta waters even more. That ambiguity does not always work to the benefit of a film that always teeters on the brink of self-indulgence, mind you.

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