Bergman Island
Short description
Bergman Island follows a filmmaking couple who spend a summer on Fårö, the Swedish island where Ingmar Bergman lived and worked, intending to write their next screenplays there. Tony, an established director, makes steady progress on his script, while Chris, considerably younger, struggles with hers and drifts further into the story she is trying to tell. As the weeks pass, the boundary between the lives they are living and the fiction they are writing becomes difficult to keep in view, set against the island's rugged landscape.
Mia Hansen-Løve wrote and directed the film, which sits between Things to Come and One Fine Morning in her filmography, following Eden. Vicky Krieps plays Chris and Tim Roth plays Tony, with Mia Wasikowska, Anders Danielsen Lie, Hampus Nordenson and Anki Larsson among the supporting cast. Charles Gillibert, Erik Hemmendorff and Rodrigo Teixeira produced the film, a co-production between Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, France and Sweden.
Made for around 7 million USD, Bergman Island took about 1 million USD at the worldwide box office. On TMDB it holds a rating of 6.3 out of 10 from roughly 250 votes, while the film critics' score stands at 7.5 out of 10 from 163 reviews, noticeably higher than the audience rating.
What's left behind the scenes
- Initially, Greta Gerwig and John Turturro agreed to the lead roles, but due to scheduling conflicts, they left the project before filming began. Gerwig was replaced by actress Vicky Krieps, and Owen Wilson took Turturro's place. Three weeks before filming started, Wilson left the project, leading director and screenwriter Mia Hansen-Løve and the producer to decide in the summer of 2018 to film half of the movie without the lead character. The second half of the film was shot a year later, in the summer of 2019, once Tim Roth finally joined as the lead.
- Before filming began, director and screenwriter Mia Hansen-Løve had met Tim Roth only a couple of times and was frankly intimidated by him. On set, Hansen-Løve and Roth argued repeatedly; for example, the actor refused to film a scene where his character swims because the water was too cold for his liking. According to the lead actress, Crips, the cause of all this was the cultural differences between the director and the actor. Hansen-Løve later claimed that toward the end of filming, she and Roth grew accustomed to one another, and the initially tense relationship only made the film "richer."
- The relationship between the characters played by Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth is based on the 15-year relationship between the film's director and screenwriter, Mia Hansen-Løve, and director Olivier Assayas.
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