It’s been an intense year for Mia Hansen-Løve. The French director of All Is Forgiven (2007) and Things to Come (2016) had finished her new film — her English-language debut Bergman Island, s…
‘s European Bureau Chief Scott Roxborough about loss, love and Bergman’s enduring influence.I think the film started for me many years ago – the first thing about the film was not the island of Fårö, but the idea to make a film about writing, about creating, about a couple where both do that. I’d had that in mind for a while and was waiting for the right time and right frame to make a film about it.
I still have such passionate love for his work, how he deals with couples but above all with his artist integrity, his absolute sincerity. When filmmaking becomes difficult, and there is political pressure, moral pressure or economic pressure to compromise your artist vision, thinking of Bergman helps lead me in the right direction.
I was aware it was risky to make the film in English but it had to be. I wanted it to be a fictional story and English was the door into that fiction, it gave me the necessary distance to the story. on the life of the late French producer Humbert Balsan and have said you mined your mother’s life forI think this film is equally as personal as my previous films. In all my films there is a balance between an autobiographical dimension and something more fictional. All mix both.
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