Bergman Island

Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island premiered in the main competition of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or. It is the French writer-director's seventh feature, made after Things to Come and before One Fine Morning, and her first film in English. Hansen-Løve had visited Fårö, the small Baltic island Ingmar Bergman called home, while pregnant with her daughter, and the project began as a long-gestating attempt to make sense of that pilgrimage.

Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth play Chris and Tony, an American filmmaking couple who rent one of Bergman's old houses for a summer of writing. Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie appear in the film-within-the-film Chris is drafting, a tender mid-twenties love story unfolding on the same windswept beaches. Cinematographer Denis Lenoir shoots the island in soft, sunlit 35mm; the editing, by Marion Monnier, lets the two stories drift gently into one another, mapping the porous relationship between life and the work it becomes.

Critics responded warmly, with Rotten Tomatoes recording an 83 per cent positive score and Metacritic registering generally favourable reviews. Sight & Sound and Cahiers du Cinéma placed it among the year's best, IndieWire later included it in its Best Movies of the 2020s So Far list (number 42 in 2025), and the Criterion Collection released it on disc in the United States. Hansen-Løve received a European Film Award nomination for Best Director. The film stands as one of the most graceful recent meditations on cinephilia, marriage and the slippages between the two.