Review: Mia Hansen-Love's captivating 'Bergman Island' lures us into a maze of meta-mirrors
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Oct 15, 2021
4 minutes
If you've watched Ingmar Bergman's 1973 miniseries, "Scenes From a Marriage" — as you may have done recently, perhaps in preparation for the new HBO remake — you know there's a particular pleasure to be found in each episode's closing moments.
"And while you look at this footage of Faro, here are the credits," a voice soothingly intones over images of that remote island where Bergman lived, died and shot some of his most celebrated films, this one included. After watching Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson rip into each other for an hour, it's lovely to gaze upon a hazy sunset or a lonely lighthouse and experience a moment's reprieve. Not that the Faro we see in
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