Filmmaker couple Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth travel to the titular Faro island to work on respective screenplays. Roth is a more established director, and he's at Faro partly to show his latest film at the Bergman institute and to appear on panels talking about Bergman films. Krieps is a little more unsure as a writer and seeks Roth's guidance and support, but Roth seem hesitant and somewhat unable to help.
About midway through the film, Krieps tells Roth the story of the script she's working on and we switch to Mia Wasikowska, also a filmmaker and also traveling to Faro, but for the wedding of an old friend. She encounters Anders Danielsen Lie, an old lover that she has separated from ... twice. Although both are with different partners now, their relationship rekindles.
It's easiest to say that at a certain point the boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred as people who seem to be from the first story enter the film within the film, and then it breaks down even further.
I've read reviews that strive to place a rather rigid structure on this film and read a lot into it to connect both parts in definite ways. I disagree with this kind of rather straightforward reading of the film. I think there's a strong emotional logic to this film, but trying to trace that in more literal terms is misguided. There are aspects of the film about the nature of love and relationships, the relationship between relationships and career, and about art and success, but they are more meditations than statements.
I really really like this film.
About midway through the film, Krieps tells Roth the story of the script she's working on and we switch to Mia Wasikowska, also a filmmaker and also traveling to Faro, but for the wedding of an old friend. She encounters Anders Danielsen Lie, an old lover that she has separated from ... twice. Although both are with different partners now, their relationship rekindles.
It's easiest to say that at a certain point the boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred as people who seem to be from the first story enter the film within the film, and then it breaks down even further.
I've read reviews that strive to place a rather rigid structure on this film and read a lot into it to connect both parts in definite ways. I disagree with this kind of rather straightforward reading of the film. I think there's a strong emotional logic to this film, but trying to trace that in more literal terms is misguided. There are aspects of the film about the nature of love and relationships, the relationship between relationships and career, and about art and success, but they are more meditations than statements.
I really really like this film.