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BERGMAN ISLAND BY MIA HANSEN-LØVE
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BERGMAN ISLAND' Review: Love Among the Cinephiles
In Mia Hansen-Love's new film, Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth play filmmakers on the rocks in the Baltic Sea.
"This is your landscape, Bergman. It corresponds to your innermost imaginings of forms, proportions, colors, horizons, sounds, silences, lights, and reflections." That is Ingmar Bergman, in his memoir "The Magic Lantern," rhapsodizing on his "secret love," the island of Faro in the Baltic Sea. Starting in 1960 with "Through a Glass Darkly," he shot many of his films on Faro and died there in 2007.
In "Bergman Island," Mia Hansen-Love's slippery and enchanting new movie, Faro, an austere and forbidding presence in much of Bergman's work, is revealed as a pilgrimage spot for cinephiles and an appealing seaside destination for less obsessive travelers. Visitors can browse in the gift shop and the library, watch movies in Bergman's personal screening room, or pile into a bus for the guided "Bergman Safari" (an actual annual event). They can also swim, drink, play Ludo and shop for sheepskins.
By A.O. Scott
The New York Times
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