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| The Guardian - Culture: Film | | | | Bergman Island review – marital woes show up on a trip to Ingmar Bergman territory | | by Peter Bradshaw May 31, 2022 | | Real and imaginary marriage discontents bleed into each other when a director and his screenwriter spouse go on retreat to the great auteur’s island home Here is an elegant and ruminative dual narrative from Mia Hansen-Løve, a parallel romance concerning monogamy and its discontents. It’s set on the Swedish island of Fårø, home to Ingmar Bergman and the location of many of his films, his house and properties there being preserved as a festival and study centre site. It’s intriguingly autobiographical and the Bergman-adjacent discussion and ambience creates something instantly serious, although the effect is also sometimes self-conscious and desiccated. Perhaps in order to pre-empt charges of swoony Bergman-worship, the film has one character boorishly attack Bergman’s reputation but the effect is unsatisfying in another way. Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps play Tony and Chris, a renowned film director and his screenwriter spouse who have come here for a creative retreat. Chris wants to tell Tony about the script she’s having trouble with: he is unhelpful and distracted, but nonetheless we see Chris’s movie idea dramatised on screen. The film-within-the-film stars Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie as Amy and Joseph, a couple who were lovers as teens but broke up, and now find the spark re-igniting, in a difficult and upsetting way, when they meet later in life as guests at the wedding of a mutual friend. Continue reading... | | | | | Johnny Depp plays Royal Albert Hall with Jeff Beck | | by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture correspondent May 31, 2022 | | Actor performs in UK for second night in a row while awaiting US defamation lawsuit verdict Johnny Depp has appeared on stage alongside Jeff Beck for a second night in a row ahead of his defamation trial verdict in the US. Concertgoers had expressed hope the actor would appear at the Royal Albert Hall in west London after he made a shock appearance at the Sheffield date of Beck’s UK tour on Sunday – just 48 hours after the jury was sent out to consider its verdict in the multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit with his ex-wife Amber Heard. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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