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Persona is a 1966 Swedish art house film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. Persona’s story revolves around a young nurse named Alma (Bibi Andersson) and her patient, a well-known stage actress named Elisabet Vogler (Liv Ullman), who has suddenly ceased to speak. The relationship between the two women becomes strained and the border between dream and reality becomes blurred. By the end of the film the identities of Alma and Elisabeth appear to merge.
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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 |
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Distributed by | AB Svensk Filmindustri (Sweden), Lopert Pictures (US), MGM (2004, DVD) |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | Sweden |
Language | Swedish |
Box office | $250,000 (US)[1] |
Persona has been labelled a psychological drama and modernist horror [2] and was subject to cuts due to the film’s controversial subject matter. It is the sixth collaboration between influential cinematographer Sven Nykvist and director Ingmar Bergman and features their trademark minimalism. As with Bergman’s other works, the film is shot and set in Sweden and deals with the themes of illness, bleakness, death and insanity.
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.[3] Other critics have described it as "one of this century’s great works of art".[4][5] In Sight and Sound’s 2012 Greatest Films Poll it comes in at 17th in the critics poll (tied with Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai") and 13th in the directors poll. Persona was Sweden’s entry to the 39th Academy Award category for Best Foreign Film. It currently holds a 92% "Fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes. The film was released on August 31, 1966, while the promotional premiere took place on October 18, 1966 at the Spegeln cinema in Stockholm. The film opened in the U.S. on March 6, 1967.[6]