Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentMovies sometimes depict the difficulties of filmmaking and a few even deign to mention the screenwriter.
Among the rare films in which scripters are front and center: “Sunset Boulevard,” “In a Lonely Place,” “Contempt,” “Barton Fink,” “The Player,” “Adaptation” and “Mank.”In these films and others, the writer is almost always male.
And we rarely see the results; we have to accept his word that the script turned out well or badly.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, Ingmar Bergman’s longtime home.Her husband, Tony (Tim Roth), a more successful filmmaker, is writing his.
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