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Bergman Island

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Bergman Island

2021

Mia Hansen-Løve

Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Mia Wasikowska, Anders Danielsen Lie ...

6.3

1,854

Drama The picture revolves around an American filmmaking couple who retreat to the island for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired 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.

	Media	Author	Review
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Wasikowska is outstanding as a photocopy of a photocopy of Hansen-Løve (...) 'Bergman Island' is a heart-stoppingly poignant stunner all the same"
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"Viewers hoping for any sort of narrative stability may lose patience. One problem of the film is that it can’t hide an evident awe at visiting cinephile sacred ground"
		Jon Frosch 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."
		Ben Croll The Wrap	"A self-reflexive Russian nesting doll-like mix of story in story in story, commenting on itself while throwing plenty of manna to the cinephile masses (...) a film that always teeters on the brink of self-indulgence"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[As] a cinephile shell game made with disarmingly clever sincerity (...) it’s one that leaves you grateful to have paid a visit to this island."
		Ben Kenigsberg rogerebert.com	"There's a good film inside 'Bergman Island,' and it's a movie that Bergman fans wouldn't want to go anywhere near."
		Pat Brown Slant	"Bergman Island alluringly grapples with the ghosts of cinema past (...) Hansen-Løve presents two versions of Färo, each haunted by a different Bergman (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An elegant and ruminative dual narrative from Mia Hansen-Løve, a parallel romance concerning monogamy and its discontents (...) A valuable if slightly passionless and reticent movie (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"Mia Hansen-Løve’s sunlit relationship drama is a grown-up gem (...) Emotionally intelligent, endlessly intuitive but entirely ungory work (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Dustin Chang Screen Anarchy	"All the ingredients to make a great Hansen-Løve film are here: great assemblage of talented, intriguing actors, great location, self-reflexive storytelling, young love. But it doesn't quite gel together"
		Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"A powerfully concrete impression of Fårö itself. Hansen-Løve may not see in it exactly what Bergman saw, but she is no less in thrall to its strange, melancholy magic"
		Ian Freer Empire	"'Bergman Island' is beautifully played —especially by Krieps and Wasikowska— and retains all the hallmarks of Hansen-Løve's best work; an intelligent, personal, heartfelt treat (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"A great oeuvre, a game of nested mirrors about couplehood, creativity, cinephilia and ghosts (...) Mia Hansen-Løve signs a quintessential work of her style all in finesse that will delight her followers.

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