Bergman, Flee at New York Film Fest

The spirit of Ingmar Bergman returns to the big screen in the new film 'Bergman Island' at the New York Film Festival. Together with the Danish film 'Flee' it is one of the most superb films of the year.  

  • Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps in "Bergman Island" (2021)

  • It takes a French director with Danish ancestors to dive into the mythical world of Ingmar Bergman. Mia Hansen-Løve, already admired for her outstanding 인터넷바카라Goodbye First Love인터넷바카라 (2011) and 인터넷바카라Things to Come인터넷바카라 (2016) etc., sets her first English speaking film on the Swedish island Fårö, where Bergman lived his last decades and shot the legendary films 인터넷바카라Through a Glass Darkly인터넷바카라 (1961) and 인터넷바카라Persona인터넷바카라 (1966), among others.

  • Two film directors (Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps), who are a couple, find themselves breathing the same air as the Swedish master hoping to find inspiration for their latest screenplays. Based loosely on Hansen-Løve인터넷바카라s own creative process (she had a relationship with famous French director Olivier Assayas) the story jumps into a film within a film when another story unfolds and two lovers (Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie) meet again. Woven together as a game for cinephiles with Bergman references, the film maneuvers around the familiar landscape in a lyrical and poignant way but with Hansen-Løve인터넷바카라s unique voice (Bergman인터넷바카라s house, cinema and 인터넷바카라Scenes From a Marriage인터넷바카라-bed are all here). Not only has she created a sort of love letter to Bergman, but she does it인터넷바카라like in her other films인터넷바카라intelligently, fluently and fully personally.

  • Another even more personal film at the NYFF is the Danish animated documentary 인터넷바카라Flee,인터넷바카라 which has already made successful trips around the world since it won major prizes at Sundance and Göteborg film festivals. This unpleasantly relevant, immediate and heartbreakingly stunning diamond tells the real story of how the Afghani boy Amin flees through Russia with his destination being Sweden. From Kabul인터넷바카라s streets listening to Ah-a인터넷바카라s 인터넷바카라Take on Me인터넷바카라 through Moscow blues, Estonia abyss and Copenhagen cool, the film asks, with a big heart, fundamental questions about interrupted childhoods, memories, sexuality and what the word 인터넷바카라home인터넷바카라 really means. If you only watch one film in 2021, this is the one.

  • But if you are hungry for more film food, NYFF offers a smorgasbord of the best of the year. After opening with Joel Coen인터넷바카라s 인터넷바카라The Tragedy of Macbeth,인터넷바카라 where Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand portray the Shakespearean couple, you can also make a trip to Russia with the fantastic 인터넷바카라Unclenching the Fists.인터넷바카라 Or travel through Iran in the moving road movie 인터넷바카라Hit the Road인터넷바카라 or through Japan in the masterful 인터넷바카라Drive My Car.인터넷바카라 Summer's 인터넷바카라The Tsugua Diaries인터넷바카라 takes you to Portugal under lockdown, while 인터넷바카라Ahed인터넷바카라s Knee인터넷바카라 shakes you up in Israel. France is worth a visit in 인터넷바카라Petite Mamam,인터넷바카라 so is a 1920인터넷바카라s Harlem in the impressive 인터넷바카라Passing인터넷바카라 and a futuristic Rwanda in eye-popping musical 인터넷바카라Neptune Frost.인터넷바카라 These and many more feed you the medicine of our time: a cinematic flee to other places.

  • Niclas Goldberg

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