Bergman Island Movie Storyline. Bergman Island centers on romantically involved American filmmakers Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), watching as they retreat to the mythical island of Fårö for the summer. Amidst the wild beauty of the landscape where Ingmar Bergman lived and filmed his most acclaimed works, the pair hope to find inspiration for their upcoming films. As days spent separately from Tony pass by, Chris’s fascination with the island grows, and memories of her first love come to the surface. Lines between reality and fiction then begin to blur, and tear the couple further apart.
Bergman Island is a 2021 internationally co-produced drama film, written and directed by Mia Hansen-Løve. It stars Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie. It had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 11, 2021. It was released in France on July 14, 2021, by Les Films du Losange. Principal photography began on August 9, 2018, on Fårö, an island in Sweden. Production paused on September 11, 2018 and recommenced on June 17, 2019.
About the Production
As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island’s wild landscape.
Hansen-Love’s long-time producer Charles Gillibert, who previously collaborated with the director on Things To Come and Eden, is launching financing on the project at Cannes under his CG Cinema banner. A sales agent has yet to be set.
The production, which was developed with the support of Sweden’s Filmregion Stockholm-Mälardalen through its Gotlands Filmfond, will shoot in the summer of 2018, coinciding with the centenary of Bergman’s birth on July 14, 2018. A sales agent is yet to be attached.
Before that, Hansen-Love will shoot her next film Maya, starring Romain Kolinka as a reporter who heads to India after being held hostage in Syria.
Other upcoming titles on CG Cinema’s increasingly high-profile slate includes Deniz Gamze Erguven’s LA riots drama Kings, starring Halle Berry and Daniel Craig, which is in post-production. First images will be shown at Cannes by sales agent IMR.
The company is also in the throes of casting Olivier Assayas’s next French-language feature, which will shoot by the end of 2017. It has recently boarded Philippe Garrel’s next film, provisionally titled Première Chasse, following a boy’s first amorous adventures, which will go into production in 2018.
The company is also gearing up for production on Yann Gonzalez’s thriller Knife + Heart starring Vanessa Paradis as a gay-porn producer in 1970s Paris, which is sold by Kinology. Gonzalez was last in Cannes with orgy comedy You And The Night which played in the 2013 edition of Critics’ Week.
On the international front, CG has recently signed as co-producer on Chinese director Bi Gan’s detective tale Long Day’s Journey Into Night starring Tang Wei.
In Cannes, CG was a producer on late Iranian director Abbas Kairostami’s final experimental work 24 Frames which premieres as a Special Screening in the Official Selection. It is also handling sales and promotion of the title which Gillibert says is aimed at museum and cinematheque-style screenings.
Bergman Island (2021)
Directed by: Mia Hansen-Løve
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Anders Danielsen Lie, Hampus Nordenson, Anki Larsson, Kerstin Brunnberg, Melinda Kinnaman, Stig Björkman, Joel Spira, Clara Strauch
Screenplay by: Mia Hansen-Løve
Production Design by: Mikael Varhelyi
Cinematography by: Denis Lenoir
Film Editing by: Marion Monnier
Costume Design by: Judith de Luze, Julia Tegström
Set Decoration by: Lisanne Fransen
Art Direction by: Eva Lendorph, Beatrice Strand
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Les films du losange (France), IFC Films (United States)
Release Date: July 11, 2021 (Cannes), July 14, 2021 (France), October 15, 2021 (United States)
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