Bergman Island (2021)
Country: FR/BEL/GER/SV/MEX
Technical: col/2.39:1 112m
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Mia Wasikowska, Anders Danielsen Lie
Synopsis:
A film-making couple takes a house on the island of Fåro for the summer in order to work on their separate projects and bask in the wake of Bergman and his films. The woman chafes at her partner's complacency over her creative block and the characters in her story, which have already taken on the imprint of reality, begin to bleed into the present.
Review:
Shot over two summers because of casting problems, this is one of those leisurely summer films in the tradition of the master himself (Summer with Monika, etc.). The Bergman stuff early on is necessary to make the point about his oppressive example and unpleasantness towards those around him, so that the Krieps character begins to cast Roth in the same mould. 'Why does he only make films about misery?', she complains, and so fashions a story of an old love affair rekindled (cf. Hansen-Løve's own Goodbye, First Love/Un amour de jeunesse), but doesn't know how to end it, sadly or happily. If you can take the metaphoric weirdness at the end, this is an enduring film about the power of places to disturb or soothe us, depending on how they find us.
Country: FR/BEL/GER/SV/MEX
Technical: col/2.39:1 112m
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Mia Wasikowska, Anders Danielsen Lie
Synopsis:
A film-making couple takes a house on the island of Fåro for the summer in order to work on their separate projects and bask in the wake of Bergman and his films. The woman chafes at her partner's complacency over her creative block and the characters in her story, which have already taken on the imprint of reality, begin to bleed into the present.
Review:
Shot over two summers because of casting problems, this is one of those leisurely summer films in the tradition of the master himself (Summer with Monika, etc.). The Bergman stuff early on is necessary to make the point about his oppressive example and unpleasantness towards those around him, so that the Krieps character begins to cast Roth in the same mould. 'Why does he only make films about misery?', she complains, and so fashions a story of an old love affair rekindled (cf. Hansen-Løve's own Goodbye, First Love/Un amour de jeunesse), but doesn't know how to end it, sadly or happily. If you can take the metaphoric weirdness at the end, this is an enduring film about the power of places to disturb or soothe us, depending on how they find us.
Country: FR/BEL/GER/SV/MEX
Technical: col/2.39:1 112m
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Mia Wasikowska, Anders Danielsen Lie
Synopsis:
A film-making couple takes a house on the island of Fåro for the summer in order to work on their separate projects and bask in the wake of Bergman and his films. The woman chafes at her partner's complacency over her creative block and the characters in her story, which have already taken on the imprint of reality, begin to bleed into the present.
Review:
Shot over two summers because of casting problems, this is one of those leisurely summer films in the tradition of the master himself (Summer with Monika, etc.). The Bergman stuff early on is necessary to make the point about his oppressive example and unpleasantness towards those around him, so that the Krieps character begins to cast Roth in the same mould. 'Why does he only make films about misery?', she complains, and so fashions a story of an old love affair rekindled (cf. Hansen-Løve's own Goodbye, First Love/Un amour de jeunesse), but doesn't know how to end it, sadly or happily. If you can take the metaphoric weirdness at the end, this is an enduring film about the power of places to disturb or soothe us, depending on how they find us.