Review of Bergman Island

Beautiful but slightly boring film about a film-making couple on a trip to the island where Bergman made a lot of his films...they are a bit troubled in their relationship - he's more successful and famous, she is stuck on a film that she can't finish. And then we get the story of her film as a story-within-the-story, still on the same island and with some overlapping actors. And that's a good thing, because it's much more interesting than the frame-story. Forty-five minutes in and I couldn't see how the film could be saved, because it was so dull, but the story-within-the-story redeemed it. Lots of messing with your head with narrative inconsistencies, buildings that aren't there in both stories, etc.

Watched at Lansdown Film Club, sitting on the agonizingly painful chairs.