Review: Mia Hansen-Løve's captivating 'Bergman Island' lures us into a maze of meta-mirrors

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Review: Mia Hansen-Løve's captivating 'Bergman Island' lures us into a maze of meta-mirrors
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Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth play a filmmaking couple on a trip to Fårö, the island immortalized by Ingmar Bergman.

). But it’s surely her most emotionally and intellectually playful, her least susceptible to easy classification.That there is trouble in Chris and Tony’s paradise feels obvious, even if the sources of that trouble are not. The possibility of infidelity hangs in the air — hinted at in the pages of Tony’s notebook and by the long afternoon Chris spends with a Swedish film student — without ever becoming a tangible threat.

The only way out of this labyrinth of meta-mirrors, apparently, is to plunge deeper into it. And so Chris, working through her creative and romantic frustrations, begins telling Tony about the latest movie she’s writing, a movie that takes shape before our eyes. It’s about a 28-year-old filmmaker, Amy , and her on-and-off romance with Joseph , which arrives at a possible turning point when they travel to Fårö for a friend’s destination wedding.

Amy and Joseph’s story is so gently enveloping that it may take you a while to start parsing the intricate parallels that bind Amy and Chris to Hansen-Løve, or to tease out where this story is headed and what it might mean for a relationship on the verge of either disintegration or salvation.

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