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Persona is a 1966 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. Persona’s central story revolves around a young nurse named Alma (Bibi Andersson) and her patient, a well-known stage actress named Elisabet Vogler (Liv Ullman) who, in the middle of performing Elektra, ceases to speak. The attending psychiatrist sends the actress to a remote seaside cottage to facilitate her recuperation under Alma's care. At the beginning, the two seem perfectly suited: a genuine, cheerful and talkative nurse, who becomes the voice of the two individuals and a cryptic, sophisticated, and silent patient. Alma becomes a little enamoured of the actress and talks incessantly about her life, opening her soul to the outwardly sympathetic patient. Soon Alma discovers that Elisabeth's interest is more than mere courtesy or voyeuristic curiosity when the nurse finds the letter which describes her as an amusing study for the actress. The relationship between the women becomes strained and the border between dream and reality becomes blurred. By the end of the film the identities of Alma and Elisabeth begin to merge and Bergman has turned that metamorphosis into a metaphor for the fate of art, language, and consciousness itself.
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Persona | |
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Directed by | Ingmar Bergman |
Written by | Ingmar Bergman |
Produced by | Ingmar Bergman |
Starring | Bibi Andersson Liv Ullmann |
Cinematography | Sven Nykvist |
Distributed by | AB Svensk Filmindustri (Sweden), United Artists (US), MGM (2004, DVD) |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
Country | Sweden |
Language | Swedish |
Box office | $250,000 (US)[1] |
Persona is considered one of the major works of the 20th century by essayists and critics such as Susan Sontag, who referred to it as Bergman's masterpiece.[2] Other critics have described it as "one of this century’s great works of art".[3][4] In Sight and Sound’s 1972 poll of the ten greatest films of all time, Persona was ranked at number five.[5] In the 2012 British Film Institute list of The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time, Persona is tied at 17 with Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai."