‘We can forgive even bad fathers’: Mia Hansen-Løve on making a movie haunted by Ingmar Bergman - The Guardian

When the French director stayed at Bergman’s retreat on Fårö island to write a screenplay about a marriage breakdown, she was consumed by her thoughts about the narcissistic genius of the great Swedish director

Six years ago, Mia Hansen-Løve went to a little Baltic island to write a screenplay. On the face of it, a terrible idea. Fårö is not just any island, but the place Ingmar Bergman lived, worked, died … [+8663 chars]

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