“Bergman Island” Review!

Director: Mia Hansen-Love

Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth

Director Mia Hansen-Love's film "Bergman Island" is about a film-making couple who visit a remote island home where Ingmar Bergman filmed the miniseries "Scenes from a Marriage", which attracted millions of Swedes. Inspired to divorce, and you know how. "Bergman Island" is about to play. The obvious path would be an explosive marital breakup fraught with the "curse of creativity," but writer-director Mia Hansen—love for her—is smart. Instead, "Bergman Island" emerges as a cool and funny rumination about how the stories enrich and steal the lives of both the teller and his audience.

Jody Criss (Vicky Krebs) and Tony (Tim Roth), both writer-directors but Tony Bergman specialist, appear to be making "high" horrors, and he is currently enjoying great success. Refreshingly, this career imbalance doesn't play to any kind of dramatic anger, instead inviting us to a very concrete wedding that may have lost some of its spark, but still brings comfort and joy to its occupants. brings. Krebs and Roth both do extraordinary, subtle things, and their casual chemistry is so delightful that you don't doubt for a moment that it's a tried-and-tested relationship.

Chris and Tony are on a collaborative writers' retreat on Bergman's native island of Faroe, hoping to finish their scripts by gaining insights that inspired one of the toughest filmmakers of all time. Although Tony is initially the star of the show, the director spends a lot of time inside Chris's head as he develops a friendship with a local film student and begins to shape his screenplay into a film we can watch. She thinks.

The story is presented to us of a young and very passionate love, as imagined by Chris at a wedding ceremony in Faro, where young American director Amy (Mia Wasikowska) brings her Norwegian old flame, Joseph (Anders Danielsson) runs in. It's more glamorous and melodramatic than a real-world story, and these fictional characters are more likely to find joy in ABBA than in Bergman, but the director finds clever ways to bring the two aspects together until the facts. And the gap between imagination should not start. Opacity, and disappears completely.

Very open to interpretation, "Bergman Island" is so emotionally silent it punches you in the gut, but it's so cleverly constructed that its absence isn't a big issue. Hansen-Love puts witty and funny dialogue in the hands of expert actors, surrounds them with softly drawn natural beauty, and sets the whole thing to a stunning soundtrack that feels like it's taken from the locale. . The turn to meta-on-meta ending can prove divisive, but surrender to the gentle rhythms on offer here and you'll be transported to witness the creative processes of one of the most believable screen couples in years.