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1h 49min
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Synopsis:
From acclaimed filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love (Eden, Things to Come), 'Bergman Island' is a dazzling and bittersweet romantic drama set on the breathtaking island of Faro, where revered filmmaker Ingmar Bergman lived and worked for over forty years. Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth) are filmmakers, hoping to find inspiration fortheir next films as they retreat to the Swedish island to work on their screenplays. Meanwhile Amy (Mia Wasikowska) and Joseph (Anders Danielsen Lie), who were once lovers, are staying on Fcird to celebrate the wedding of their friend.
As the summer passes by, the lines between reality and fiction become increasingly blurred as reminders of Bergman's legacy playfully influence both stories. Laced with characteristically semi-autobiographical elements, Hansen-Love's latest is a mischievous and elegant contemplation of love, memory and the journey of the creative process.
Actors:
, , Grace Delrue, , , Hampus Nordenson, Clara Strauch, , , Teodor Abreu, , Magnus Almqvist, , Molly Bring Uddén, Eva Mandorff, Hanna Alexandersson, Fia Hamberg, Ellen Lundkvist, Elsa Rosengren, Therese Melander
Directors:
Producers:
Charles Gillibert, Erik Hemmendorff, Rodrigo Teixeira, Lisa Widén
Writers:
Mia Hansen-Løve
Studio:
Mubi
Genres:
Drama, Romance
Collections:
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BBFC:
Release Date:
19/09/2022
Run Time:
109 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 2.0, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Swedish Dolby Digital 2.0, Swedish Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English, English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.39:1
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Bergman's Ghosts Short Film
BBFC:
Release Date:
19/09/2022
Run Time:
113 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Swedish DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, Swedish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles:
English, English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.39:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Bergman's Ghosts Short Film

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Reviews (5) of Bergman Island

Lovely island, poor film - Bergman Island review by JR

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24/10/2022

As a travelogue of the Swedish island of Faro, the film is stunning, and will have you planning your next summer holiday there. But the rest is long and boring. It is the navel gazing of wealthy film creatives with nothing to say about life outside their privileged bubble. There is a film within a film which is even more pointless than the main one. Bergman would turn in his grave at this.

2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.

Subtle narrative of life and art - Bergman Island review by PD

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03/10/2022

Mia Hansen-Løve’s eighth feature is at once a love-letter to the Swedish master director and a delicate study of the complexities of relationships, the creative process, and the ways that one invariably influences the other. Meanwhile, the island, as the film captures it, has become a kind of Ingmar Bergman theme park, replete with bus tours, lectures, a preservation foundation, and a general vibe of the place as a national treasure and tourist attraction.

It concerns filmmaker Chris (Vicky Krieps) and husband Tony (Tim Roth) who arrive on Fårö – nicknamed ‘Bergman Island’ for the director’s long-time residency there – as a writing retreat. The couple, amicable and affectionate with each other, branch off to do their own things. Chris is working on her screenplay while Tony hosts a directing masterclass and a screening of one of his films at the Bergman Centre. The film’s early sequences are a relaxed first act, the relaxed tone never threatening to tip over into disharmony despite the tensions between the couple - Chris’ discovery of Tony’s notebook, for example, full of fetishised sketches of women, is a discovery that is neither resolved nor repressed. However, it’s in the second act, where Bergman Island moves into a film-within-a-film drawn from Chris’ draft script, that Hansen-Løve shifts into the overtly psychological, and untended desires rise to the surface, specifically, a student with whom Chris has made a connection appearing as a minor character, while the fictional Amy (a very good Mia Wasikowska), and first love Joseph briefly rekindle an old romance under the noses of their current partners.

It's possibly too subtle and a bit too earnest overall, and all the things such a film might portray as issues between Chris and Tony — artistic rivalry, adulterous leanings, his arrogance, her withdrawal - are hinted at and then all-too quickly passed over. However, Hansen-Løve deliberately resists the Swedish director’s darkness, and there's plenty to admire en route - for example in a scene where Bergman's treatment of women in real life is pointed out as significantly less than admirable, or, by contrast, when a smug male student who declares his disdain of Bergman to a wearied Amy is given short shrift, suggesting that admiration of a text needn’t presuppose approval of the author. Ultimately, Hansen-Løve suggests that life may well imitate art but one needn’t define the other, and there's a final last-act twist which is very effective. Well worth a look for those with patience.

1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.

Slow, precious, pretentious, Swedish film worshipping Bergman - Bergman Island review by PV

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29/06/2023

I turned this off after half an hour.

Beyond boring, also deeply precious and pretentious - the point at which a chair Bergman once sat in is worshipped was too much for me, and out came this DVD.

I suppose for deep fans of Bergman only.

Everyone else should avoid.

Maybe watch MISOMMAR instead - or old ABBA videos.

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