Time to get a little confessional and autobiographical with film, perhaps? The upcoming long-awaited and much-anticipated drama, “Bergman Island,” is about a filmmaking couple go to the island where Ingmar Bergman was inspired and find that the lines between reality and fiction start to blur. And well, it’ll do, blur, that when your life mirrors that idea a little bit, yes? The director of the film is the critically-acclaimed filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve (“Things to Come,” “Eden“) and her ex-partner is the director Olivier Assayas, whom she was in a relationship with for two decades (some of that experience influencing her film, “Goodbye First Love“).
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Maybe I’m reading into it a little bit, but the film was said to be inspired by a similar trip that Hansen-Løve and Assayas took, and they broke up the very year when she began work on the film.
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“Bergman Island” stars Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth as the older American couple, and Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie play the younger couple.
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Here’s the (google-translated) synopsis from the Telerama website.
The summary of the plot plays the card of mystery and phantom cinephilia. Both filmmakers, Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), come to spend the summer on a Swedish island to each work on their next script. The choice of place, Fårö, owes nothing to chance: it is there that Ingmar Bergman, who fell madly in love with the place in 1960, lived for forty years and made six films. As they write and explore their new environment, the lines blur between fact and fiction …
“Bergman Island” is said to have been done for quite some time now. As a result, there was speculation that it would have been ready for Cannes 2020. Still, most major international filmmakers Hansen-Løve waited out the year, and Cannes was super receptive: the film will play in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in July. Check out the first international trailer below.