film profile] in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Not just a homage to the mega-auteur of Swedish (and world) cinema and his mythical home on FÃ¥rö island, it is also a homecoming of sorts for the filmâs French director, back to her own Nordic roots.
Cineuropa: Can you give a short version of the journey from your first Ingmar Bergman memory to the creation of this film?
Mia Hansen-Løve: That would take an hour, but I can try. I have no immediate first memory. It has got deeper and more progressive, year by year, film by film. I started watching his films in my twenties and have never stopped since. Some Iâve watched so many times I donât even remember the first time. I recall reading his autobiography,