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Persona is a 1966 Swedish avant-garde psychological drama film [n 1] written, directed, and produced by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. The story revolves around a young nurse named Alma (Andersson) and her patient, well-known stage actress Elisabet Vogler (Ullmann), who has suddenly stopped speaking.
Jan 7, 2001 · Reviews. Persona. Drama. 83 minutes ‧ 1967. Roger Ebert. January 7, 2001. 6 min read. Shakespeare used six words to pose the essential human choice: “To be, or not to be?”. Elizabeth, a character in Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona,” uses two to answer it: “No, don’t!”.
Nov 13, 2017 · Many of the films of Ingmar Bergman suggest their viability as stage productions, even operas. His penetrating 1966 psychological labyrinth, Persona, however would not seem an obvious choice, since it involves one principal character who speaks incessantly and another who is totally silent.
The idea of merging the faces of the two actors came to Bergman in the editing room. He then showed it to Andersson and Ullmann, neither of whom recognized herself in the morphed image. 10. During the seven-minute prologue of Persona, there appears a three-frame shot of an erect penis.
Oct 10, 2018 · “Persona,” one of his best-known films, has experimental elements, but it boils down to a story of two very different women: an actress (Liv Ullmann), who has suddenly stopped talking, and a...
Jan 29, 2010 · If The Magician had relied on Max von Sydow's tour de force performance in the title role, Persona was new cinematic territory for Bergman, shorn almost entirely of the theatrical constraints that marked his earlier directorial efforts.
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Mar 16, 2018 · Stewart Gardiner looks at Ingmar Bergman's 'Persona' and how that film may offer insight into David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive'.
