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Persona

1966, Movie, 1h 23min

By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical PERSONA, he attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women undergo a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference. Performed with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by Sven Nykvist, the influential PERSONA is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.

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Reviews

Critic David Parkinson

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Wonderfully complex but warmly human, Bergman's drama is one of his very best.

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Michael Thomsen

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En af de bedste abstrakte art-movies nogensinde - nok Ingmar Bergman's bedste film, selvom den ikke minder om andet han har lavet. Svær at forstå, men ret gribende selvom man ikke forstår den. Vilde billeder.

3 years ago

Petter Ståhl

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Denna film sätter väldigt tydligt "konst" i "filmkonst". Berättandet är invecklat, djupt, förvirrande, men hela tiden intressant. Filmen är konstig, lite obekväm och i Bergman manér väldigt vacker. Vissa bitar flyger mig lite ö...

1 year ago

Critic Jonna Vanhatalo

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Vissa scener är så fantastiskt vackra i sin minimalistiska och teatrala scenografi eller koreografi att de liknar målade tavlor.

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A young nurse is assigned to care for a famous actress who has suddenly stopped speaking and moving. As they spend time together in isolation, the nurse begins to open up about her life, revealing intimate secrets and desires. The actress, however, remains silent, leading the nurse to question her own identity and sense of purpose. As the tension between them builds, the line between reality and fantasy blurs, and the true nature of their relationship is revealed.