Thanks to films like The Seventh Seal, Scenes from a Marriage or Persona, Ingmar Bergman is one of the most important directors of European auteur cinema. In Bergman Island, Mia Hansen-Løve delves into the myth behind the filmmaker. In doing so, she stages a beguiling interplay of marital drama, artist reflection and blurring levels of reality.
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Bergman Island delights with great acting and lots of layers
In the film’s plot, Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth play filmmaker couple Christine and Anthony, who are traveling to the Swedish island of Fårö for Bergman Week. While he is presenting his films, she looks for inspiration for her new screenplay. Gradually become slowly cracks in the relationship of the two visible, while Christine’s ideas are increasingly turning into reality.
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With Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth, a strong duo is at the center of the film, which repeatedly breaks up the summery, very leisurely holiday flair with subtle tensions. In addition, the story turns out to be filmic examination of the director with her own ex-relationship to the well-known director Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Carlos – The Jackal).
Christine stands as a stand-in for Mia Hansen-Løve herself and explores the inner workings of a filmmaker who keeps coming back from Doubts about creativity in the shadow of the more successful partner is plagued.
The iconic homage to (male) talents in the form of Ingmar Bergman is just as much a topic as a later additional narrative level. Eventually, Bergman Island breaks in Film-in-the-film gimmick from, which with Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie from Christine’s screenplay allows a new look at the main character.
Untangle all levels for yourself and still watch the film as almost playfully light pleasure to enjoy is the great triumph of Bergman Island, which more film fans should definitely discover.
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