A film-making couple make a trip to Ingmar Bergman's island home in a sensitive look at cinema and sexist double standards.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

“Bergman Island” is a mix of reality and fantasy that explores how the two can influence and oppose each other, even simultaneously.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2024

It's a piercing and rather unforgiving way of looking at the lies that we tell each other under the guise of normal human behavior.

| Jan 30, 2024

Hansen-Løve never takes herself too seriously, lining up a parade of references from Persona to Cries and Whispers with more disarming humor than ponderous melodrama.

| Jul 28, 2023

Despite the enormity of Bergman’s presence, Hansen-Løve is able to create something singular and fresh. She presents a compelling meta-narrative that twists around and through itself like an Escher staircase or a Swedish cardamom bun.

| Jul 24, 2023

Hansen-Løve expertly balances between the loneliness of your twenties with the complacency of middle age, while both find solace on the island.

| Feb 7, 2023

This "Bergman Safari" is ultimately an invitation to sigh over these views, and especially, these situations that are so outside our reach. But nothing happens. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 2, 2022

Once you get past the initial joy of geeking out on Bergman, you can fully appreciate the ways in which Hansen-Løve has channeled the artistic inspiration she gets from the filmmaker into her own work here.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 22, 2022

Bergman Island is both an authentic look at what it means to love an artist and a deft depiction of one woman’s efforts to come into her own creatively, with another near-perfect performance from Vicky Krieps at the center of it all.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

For once the film-within-a-film is more interesting than the film that frames it. It's like a puzzle box showing you the characters' inner lives.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2022

“You look at something long enough, it becomes interesting,” Tony tells Chris. Sadly not Bergman Island.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2022

The multi-layered screenplay cannily picks apart the creative process and relationships while paying invigorating tribute to female filmmakers.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 11, 2022

Nothing much else happens in the film, which never really justifies its setting, save as a postcard-pretty destination. Whither the rending of garments? Did anyone actually see a Bergman film?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 16, 2022

Replete with layers and narratively audacious. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 1, 2022

A clairvoyant and sleepy cinematographic experience in equal parts, comic and tragic at the same time, and always deeply melancholic. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2022

Hansen-Løve definitely romanticises Sweden and the entire writing process. These writers, clearly wealthy, can escape to another country to be inspired while the rest of us have to find inspiration in our cramped rooms in North London.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2022

Despite taking place on the island of one of the most tormented creators, it is the lightest and brightest film by Hansen-Løve. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 29, 2022

Speaks of the impossibility of love and the final whip anchors it successfully. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2022

Turning in finessed and thoughtful performances, Krieps and Roth bring a lived-in dynamic to the film's first key couple, with the chaos that swirls from being in the same line of work but chasing disparate aims not just flowing but bubbling.

| Jun 25, 2022

A film by a Bergman fan, about Bergman fans, who in turn are relating a tale about a pair of lovelorn Bergman fans...succeeds in delivering a wry feminist appraisal of the Swedish director.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2022