PERSONA
In this psychological drama, a nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personas are melding together.
By
the mid 60s, 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 perform a mysterious spiritual and
emotional transference. Acted 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. (Sweden, 1966, 83 min., NR, Swedish with English subtitles| Dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) stands as one
of the giants of world cinema and perhaps the father of the flowering
of art house movement in America during the 1960s and ’70s. This
selection of some of his greatest works feature new digital restorations
courtesy of Janus Films and the Swedish Film Institute.
Click on the Links Below to Purchase Tickets for More Bergman Films:
THE SEVENTH SEAL
WILD STRAWBERRIES
THE MAGIC FLUTE
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT
CRIES AND WHISPERS
