Krieps and Roth play a married couple of filmmakers spending a working retreat on Fårö where cracks begin to appear in their marriage.

A filmmaking couple, Chris and Tony Sanders, travel to Fårö, the island where Ingmar Bergman lived and worked, to attend a film screening.

Chris struggles with a dislike for Bergman for his personal failings, specifically in how he treated the women in his life and as a father, despite loving his movies.

The next day after Chris realizes how productive Tony has found his time on the island she reveals she is struggling with her work and has only a rough outline.

She discovers that Tony has hand drawn a number of provocative and abusive pictures of female figures in painful, subjugated positions.

In the screenplay Chris is writing, Amy (Mia Wasikowska), an American filmmaker in her late 20s, is travelling to Fårö for the wedding of a friend.

She is woken up by Anders Danielsen Lie who reveals that despite wrapping up his scenes for the day he has stayed in order to see Bergman's house.

[4] In August 2018, it was announced Vicky Krieps had joined the cast of the film, replacing Gerwig who had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.

[6] Owen Wilson was originally slated to replace Turturro in the role of Tony, until Tim Roth was finally cast in May 2019.

The site's critics consensus reads, "Minor but charming, the well-acted Bergman Island uses the titular filmmaker's legacy as the launchpad for a dreamlike rumination on romance and creativity.