Men film review: a twisted country house horror

Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear star in a ‘playfully twisted affair’ set deep in the English countryside

It was on the Swedish island of Fårö that the brilliant but “self-absorbed” film director Ingmar Bergman and his younger lover Liv Ullmann lived while making many of his masterpieces, including Scenes from a Marriage. In Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island, a married film-maker couple – Tony (Tim Roth) and Chris (Vicky Krieps) – visit the island on a working holiday, said Christina Newland in The i Paper. Tony, the more successful of the two, has been invited to take part in a Bergman festival, and is entirely absorbed by the Bergman-related events. He even goes on a Bergman “safari”. Chris, by contrast, “hangs back slightly”; she is struggling with the script she has come here to work on, and poses beady questions at dinners about the differences between male and female artists. Could Bergman have made his films had he had to raise the nine children he fathered?

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