— an island that is well-worth the half-hour boat ride. Round-trip ferry service is 10 euros, while longer guided tours of the island and surrounding lagoon go for 25 euros.

But nothing happened until Sweden’s Faro Island became the place to set that story. After Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman died (July 30, 2007), Hansen-Løve was struck by a feature she read about ...

Nowhere was this more evident than in the screenings for the documentaries Bergman made about the island and dedicated to its inhabitants, “ Faro Document, 1969 ” and “ Faro Document, 1979.” ...

In Bergman Island, she plays Chris, a young screenwriter, who with her older, more established filmmaker husband Tony (played by Tim Roth), go on a summer holiday to Sweden’s Faro Island, where ...

All of this makes Mia Hansen-Løve’s “ Bergman Island ” even more notable. It centers on writer-director Chris (Vicky Krieps), who’s working on a script while summering on Faro Island ...