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A film directing couple go on a retreat to 'Bergman Island', where legendary director Ingmar Bergman lived and shot many of his films, to help inspire their next artistic creations. It's a really great concept (another of those film within a film films, possibly even a hyperlink film) and has so much subtext flowing through it, mostly to do with life choices, morals, lost love etc - which makes Bergman himself the perfect accompaniment for some of the multi layered themes, given the way he lived his life. Vicky Krieps plays the wife Chris, and Tim Roth plays the husband Tony - but it's Mia Wasikowska who steals the show as the lead character in the film that Chris is making while at the retreat.
Come the end of the film, the viewer needs to join the plot dots and try to piece what exactly happened in reality, what is fiction, what blurs the lines. It's superb filmmaking and as well as being a treat for those of us who like the films of Bergman, it also has a great use of 'Winner takes it all' by Abba.
8.3/10
'Bergman Island' (2022)
Dir: Mia Hansen Love
Dir: Mia Hansen Love
A film directing couple go on a retreat to 'Bergman Island', where legendary director Ingmar Bergman lived and shot many of his films, to help inspire their next artistic creations. It's a really great concept (another of those film within a film films, possibly even a hyperlink film) and has so much subtext flowing through it, mostly to do with life choices, morals, lost love etc - which makes Bergman himself the perfect accompaniment for some of the multi layered themes, given the way he lived his life. Vicky Krieps plays the wife Chris, and Tim Roth plays the husband Tony - but it's Mia Wasikowska who steals the show as the lead character in the film that Chris is making while at the retreat.
Come the end of the film, the viewer needs to join the plot dots and try to piece what exactly happened in reality, what is fiction, what blurs the lines. It's superb filmmaking and as well as being a treat for those of us who like the films of Bergman, it also has a great use of 'Winner takes it all' by Abba.
8.3/10