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  Review by Ben Empey ★★★★½ 2

  imagine receiving a text like “wow thanks for standing me up at bergman safari”

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  Review by Jay ★★★★ 3

  the beach that turns you into mia wasikowska

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  Review by iana ★★★★ 1

  sweet, meta scenes from a marriage about the trials and tribulations of writing and how film nerds are the absolute worst. vicky krieps and mia wasikowska are OUTSTANDING

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½

  A young Parisian filmmaker whose delicately personal work (“Eden,” “Things to Come,” “Goodbye, First Love,” et al.) illuminates the unbearable lightness of being with the soft touch of a late summer breeze, Mia Hansen-Løve may not be the first 21st-century auteur who comes to mind when people consider the portentous legacy of Ingmar Bergman, a man whose cinema stared into the void in the hopes of seeing its own reflection, and shouted down God’s silence with such howling rage that even his comedies are probably still echoing in eternity. From a distance, the idea of Hansen-Løve shooting an homage to Bergman feels like the equivalent of, say, Kacey Musgraves recording a covers album devoted to the Swedish doom metal band…

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★½

  tired: having a bad time on regular vacation
  wired: having a bad time on esoteric vacation

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  Review by brat pacino ★★★★ 3

  a must-see for any and all Bergman Babes! rich interrogation of his life’s work translated into a naturalistic romantic drama. oftentimes, the more i read/learn about a [usually male] artist i admire, the less enamored i am by them. thorny, devious, sometimes cruel; interesting as characters, as ideals, as archetypes, but unpleasant to think of them as real people who inflicted real pain instead of immaculate gods. 

  it’s refreshing to see a nuanced and empathetic filmmaker like mia hansen-løve explore this layered idea, the tightrope of balancing reverence with restraint, of separating myth from material. there are SO many films about artists blurring the line between reality and fiction, and mia still manages to extract something totally new and viable. adding the omnipresent…

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  Review by Jack ★★★★

  the beach that makes you the most insufferable film nerd ever

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 2

  Better than actual Bergman movies because Bergman movies don’t have ABBA songs

  (please no one take this dumb joke review seriously)

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★½ 3

  I wanna go skinny dipping in Sweden

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  Review by Morris Yang ★★★★ 7

  The quintessential Swedish film: Bergman, saunas, ABBA.

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★½

  My heart skipped two beats, one for Anders Danielsen Lie and the other for The Winner Takes It All

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  Review by mary ★★★★½ 3

  Don't be mad. Your masterclass was dragging on forever. See you <<at home>> later. Enjoy the bergman safari ! 👍🤗🎬💕🌈😱😍😍