Review of Bergman Island (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 05 Oct 2022

(Mauro Lanari).

Mia Hansen-Løve comes up with the idea of sublimating the rupture of her relationship with Olivier Assayas by making it a film: two married directors in crisis visit the island where Bergman lived and worked to defy the curse of "Scenes from a Marriage", "the movie that pushed millions of couples to divorce". The two write a screenplay for their following feature films, then she tells her husband about her own plot and her words turn into a movie that ends with their alter egos. More brainy than "Inception", the lesson would be that what still holds the two together is the little daughter, a metaphor for their prolificity for their respective artistic careers.