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- 2021
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 52 m
- 2021
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 52 m
Summary A couple of American filmmakers, Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the summer. In this wild, breathtaking landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated pieces, they hope to find inspiration for their upcoming films. As days spent separately pass by, the fascination for the isla...
Directed By: Mia Hansen-Løve
Written By: Mia Hansen-Løve
- 2021
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 52 m
- 2021
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 52 m
Bergman Island
80
6.6
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Summary A couple of American filmmakers, Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the summer. In this wild, breathtaking landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated pieces, they hope to find inspiration for their upcoming films. As days spent separately pass by, the fascination for the isla...
Directed By: Mia Hansen-Løve
Written By: Mia Hansen-Løve
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
80
84% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
16% Mixed
5 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
80
84% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
16% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Rather than an attempt at directorial mimicry, Bergman Island is a unique vision from one of the greatest directors working today.
What begins as a straightforward story of two artists creating different projects ultimately turns into Hansen-Løve’s strongest argument for the inextricable nature of life and art yet.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 31 User Ratings
6.6
68% Positive
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
23% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
10% Negative
3 Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 31 User Ratings
6.6
68% Positive
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
23% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
10% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Bergman Island is already perfect with Chris and Tony story, inspired by the great Ingmar Bergman, Chris wrote her own story and when the story was tell visually, it just making it even more perfect, Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth chemistry is unexpectedly fantastic and i did hope they show their relationship as deeper as Amy and Joseph, played incredibly by Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie, overall, Bergman Island is beautiful, it's a great film, really really good, and it's simply one of the best films of the year.
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Even Hansen-Løve’s characteristically light, unassuming touch feels like a playful rejoinder to the weight of the Bergman mystique, a refusal to let him dictate the terms of the argument.
Bergman Island is at once an ambivalent love-letter to the Swedish master director Ingmar Bergman and a charming study of the complexities of relationships, the creative process, and the ways that one invariably influences the other.
Bergman Island deftly interrogates the idolization of art and the lionization of artists, while also distinguishing between experiencing a place and sucking it for “inspiration.”
Among the virtues of Bergman Island is how uncluttered it is generally, as well as its consistent quietude and Hansen-Løve’s keenness of observation.
A quiet character study pivoting around mum sex and elder care, it’s not the director’s best work but it’s streets ahead of this recent misfire.
this is how I sound when I tell my friends about my script ideas? damn. i love this movie, it's very special.
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This is a film that feels cordial, but small and insignificant.
This doesn't mean bad quality at all, it's just that in the final accounts, there's very little to mention about Bergman Island.
Its script resorts to playing with metafictional elements, in which one of the lead characters is immersed in another story - much more interesting by the way - in which she never seems to make it clear what she's trying to say that relates to her day-to-day life on her location.
By all accounts it is relatively effective and pertinent. However, there are no standouts in this little story.
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(Mauro Lanari)
Mia Hansen-Løve comes up with the idea of sublimating the rupture of her relationship with Olivier Assayas by making it a film: two married directors in crisis visit the island where Bergman lived and worked to defy the curse of "Scenes from a Marriage", "the movie that pushed millions of couples to divorce". The two write a screenplay for their following feature films, then she tells her husband about her own plot and her words turn into a movie that ends with their alter egos. More brainy than "Inception", the lesson would be that what still holds the two together is the little daughter, a metaphor for their prolificity for their respective artistic careers.
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It’s a film made with honesty, integrity and a certain grace, but it can’t quite
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Production Company
CG Cinéma,
Neue Bioskop Film,
Scope Pictures,
Plattform Produktion,
Piano,
Arte France Cinéma,
RT Features,
Dauphin Films,
Talipot Studio,
SCOPE Invest,
ARTE,
Eurimages,
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM),
Wallimage,
Gotlands Filmfond,
Film Capital Stockholm,
Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI),
Sveriges Television (SVT),
Les Films du Losange,
Kinology
Release Date Oct 15, 2021
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating R
Awards
Indiana Film Journalists Association, US
• 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
