Bergman Island

Chris and Tony, a successful filmmaking couple with separate careers, travel to the remote island of Fårö to work on their scripts. While Tony appears to manage the famous filmmaker life effortlessly and on his own terms, the wildness of the Swedish landscape and the weighty legacy of its famous inhabitant Ingmar Bergman affect the more introspective Chris, as she contends with the blank page. Encounters with locals and cine-tourists alike lead to further contemplations of genius, self-torment, and the act of creation itself. When Chris begins to recite the story she is working on, a metacinematic element enters into the picture, pushing the film into playful and surprising territory, unraveling the threads of all that has come before.
Working for the first time in English, Mia Hansen-Løve continues her exploration of the work of filmmaking, most notably in the finely-calibrated performance of Vicky Krieps as Chris, exposing the fragility of filmmaking life with bite and humor. As befits its title, the film is immersed in cinephilia, probing the symbol of Bergman in the ecosystem of auteur-worship. With its slippage between reality and fiction, past and present, BERGMAN ISLAND is Hansen-Løve’s most reflective, formally-radical and ultimately joyous work. (Michelle Carey)

In the presence of Mia Hansen-Løve.

Mia Hansen-Løve: APRÈS MÛRE RÉFLEXION (2004, K), TOUT EST PARDONNÉ (2007), LE PÈRE DE MES ENFANTS (2009), UN AMOUR DE JEUNESSE (2011), EDEN (2014), L’AVENIR (2016), MAYA (2018)