ARKANSAS TIMES FILM SERIES: ‘BERGMAN ISLAND’
TUESDAY 4/16. Riverdale 10 VIP Cinema. 7 p.m. $12-$14.
The great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman lived and died on Fårö, a remote island in the Baltic Sea that served as the shooting location for many of his movies. After Bergman’s death in 2007, his daughter turned his estate into an artist residency, and that’s exactly where we find the filmmaking couple at the heart of “Bergman Island” — a 2021 drama by French director Mia Hansen-Løve. Working on scripts for their respective upcoming projects, Tony (Tim Roth) settles in comfortably, while Chris (Vicky Krieps) struggles, burdened by the legacy of Bergman, who she observes was only afforded a prolific career because he was an absent father to the nine children he had with six different women.
“Bergman Island” turns meta around its halfway point, when Chris’ script in progress comes to life and takes over the screen. In this film-within-a-film, a young woman named Amy (Mia Wasikowska) is visiting the same island for a wedding, where she passionately reconnects with her great teenage love Joseph (Anders Danielsen Lie), refracting Chris and Tony’s relationship in unexpected ways. Get tickets here.