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Persona (1966)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:27
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.7/10
Runtime: 84 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: PERSONA opens with a sequence of disassociated and disturbing images--a nail is driven into someone's hand, an animal is slaughtered, a boy is seated in front of the gigantic projection of a... PERSONA opens with a sequence of disassociated and disturbing images--a nail is driven into someone's hand, an animal is slaughtered, a boy is seated in front of the gigantic projection of a woman's face. As the story begins in flashback, Elisabeth Vogler (Liv Ullmann), an acclaimed stage actress, suddenly freezes up in the middle of a performance. She has suffered a breakdown and is now either unable or unwilling to speak. Elisabeth's doctor decides to send her to a seaside cottage on a retreat and asks Alma (Bibi Andersson), a dedicated young nurse, to accompany the patient. As the days go by, in order to elicit a response from her ward, Alma finds herself discussing her most intimate secrets, which Elisabeth seems to silently absorb. Eventually, Alma begins voicing the other woman's thoughts, and to her horror, she realizes that their minds and personalities are merging. In addition to its narrative properties, PERSONA is highly innovative on a formal level, and often seems a comment on the medium of cinema itself. Bergman considered this movie and CRIES AND WHISPERS to be his two most groundbreaking cinematic achievements. [More]
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Margaretha Krook
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Margaretha Krook
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Reviews for Persona
A work of many possible readings -- any of which provide deeply disturbing looks into the psyche of the characters or character.
Ingmar Bergman's best film, I suppose, though it's still fairly tedious and overloaded with avant-garde cliches.
Bergman has come up with probably one of his most masterful films technically and in conception, but also one of his most difficult ones.
An intense, challenging and complex experimental psychological drama.
One of Bergman's undisputed masterpieces is a seminal work of psychonalayis and metacinema, raising more complex questions about identity and role-playing than it could possibly answer, thus deliberately encouraging ambivalence and ambiguity.
Corajoso em sua abordagem narrativa, Bergman cria um dos mais densos dramas psicológicos do Cinema, quebrando as convenções da linguagem para expressar idéias e sentimentos.
There are so many stunning monologues and unforgettable set-pieces in Persona that even at a modest 80 minutes, it feels fuller on the surface than most movies twice the length.
...Bergman's penchant for strangeness eventually undercuts the effective elements.
[Persona] is persistently compelling, primarily due to its contemplative thematic structure, partially devoid of language that allows the spectator to inscribe meaning.
In Persona Bergman explores the cinematic medium and the remote depths of human subconscious, having abandoned the question of faith that had hitherto preoccupied him.
Miss Ullmann and Miss Andersson just about carry the film -- and exquisitely, too.
Ingmar Bergman's haunting masterpiece explores the gulf of communication that exists between a nurse and her silent patient.
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