Persona

Persona

  • Director: Ingmar Bergman
  • Countries of origin: Sweden
  • Language: Swedish, English
  • Release date: March 16, 1967
  • Runtime: 1h 23min
  • Sound mix: AGA Sound System
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Персона
  • "Persona" is a suspense film directed by Ernst Ingmar Bergman and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann . It was released in Sweden on October 18, 1966.
    The film tells the story of nurse Alma gradually losing herself in the process of getting along with actress Elizabeth and quietly becoming another clone of the other party   .

    Details

    • Release date March 16, 1967
    • Filming locations Fårö, Gotlands län, Sweden
    • Production companies AB Svensk Filmindustri

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $90,556

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    • By Hugh 2022-07-24 21:23:06

      Persona: The Imagistic Beauty of Facial Emotions

      The imagistic beauty of facial emotions and the lines are great for excavating human nature. "Survival is a hopeless dream. Don't do anything, just survive. Be vigilant every second, pay attention to your surroundings."

      With the performative nature of everyday life, aphasia is passive resistance, but it's a re-wearing thicker mask. While escaping from others, escaping from yourself.

      The indistinguishable self, the inner worry; until I realize that I love life, comfort...

    • By Destini 2022-04-24 07:01:06

      everyone's mask

      People often say: "If a person wants to be strong, he must first face himself." This sentence has always been on the lips since ancient times, but few people can do it.

      Bergman's films never seem to be out of touch with human emotions in the real world, which is an important symbol of his films. And another important symbol in his movies is faith. There is never a lack of thinking about faith in his movies. This is a knot of the characters in all his movies, whether...

    • By Alayna 2022-04-24 07:01:06

      personal babble

      Personally, I feel that there is a "story" in the main line. The nurse takes care of the actress who has lost her voice, and keeps telling it during the process. The actress is in absolute silence, and gradually dissects herself to the actress, including unknown sins, but When she said that the actress had been thinking of herself as a "research", the anger and disappointment made her start losing her mind, while sanity kept giving her control over herself. The beginning story has already...

    • By Jake 2022-04-24 07:01:06

      or mask

      Movies are works of art as well as tools, and it's hard to imagine a situation in which a novel's masquerade is in the same way that a silent film is as inferior to a sound film.

      Ingmar Bergman's films have always focused on original intentions and light plots, like wild strawberries, like the seventh seal. This film also tells an exaggerated story: the nurse takes care of the actor who is aphasia, and the result is integrated with the actor. . In fact, this film can be...

    • By Felipe 2022-04-24 07:01:06

      Driven mad by the silence of the nihilists

      The first half is about when the meaning of faith in destiny sinks into silent nihilism, one person's mask becomes the liberation of another. Elizabeth's role is revealed quite clearly by the book "A Hero of Our Time" read by the little boy at the beginning of the film, in which the protagonist wears a kind of isolated nihilism and is devoured by emptiness day by day; while Emma's role It shows the true self in the presence of the listener.

      The second half begins to escape into the...

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    • By Colt 2023-09-29 20:03:12

      The title uses the principle of persistence of vision, and even a flash of a frame can leave a clear...

    • By Jessie 2023-08-10 15:30:35

      Bergman's films are always simple characters and a few fixed scenes. You clearly know what he wants to express, but there is a very weak sense of paleness. Sorry, I can't like...

    • By Vern 2023-08-07 17:43:59

      9.5 points. experimental. Art film. The concept of Double. Good interpretation of "fictional characters" or "acting personalities". lack of motherhood. Powerful performance in silence. Madness. feminism. What's the matter with that kid? Appeared in at least three of Bergman's films....

    • By Daniella 2023-07-27 16:26:36

      First-class directors don't have to rely on clever tricks to make up mysteries. It's all within the imagination. Bergman is saying that you will really get four stars in the fog and wait for it to be re-watched every...

    • By Elsa 2023-07-19 06:39:50

      Bewildered at the beginning and the end. Bergman and Woody Allen are still different. Not to mention that although the two filmed the same core of tragedy, Woody covered the skin of comedy. Although Woody is very naked and straightforward in terms of human nature, he does not have the depth of Bergman's...

    Movie plot

    The stage actress Elizabeth ( Liv Ullmann ) forgot her lines during a performance. After that, she refused to speak for several months and was sent to a psychiatric hospital. The nurse Alma ( Bibi Andersson ) who took care of her was blamed by the doctor for not fulfilling her duties, and the hospital arranged for her to take Elizabeth to recuperate at a beach house. After the two arrived at the villa, Elizabeth improved, but still...
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    "Persona" is very experimental both in terms of images and themes. Director Ernst Ingmar Bergman uses a lot of editing techniques such as jumpers to give the film an uncompromising and undisguised modernity. The film can be described as a true anthropological study, which explores a series of issues such as social, family and sexual factors being suppressed. Although the film looks a bit abstract and the environment seems closed,...
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    Movie quotes

    • Sister Alma: Karl-Henrik and I rented a cottage by the sea once. It was June, and we were all alone. One day, when Karl-Henrik had gone into town, I went to the beach on my own. It was a warm and lovely day. There was another girl there. She'd paddled over from another island because our beach was sunnier and more secluded. We lay there, sunbathing beside one another, complete naked, dozing now and then, putting suntan lotion on. We had those cheap straw hats on, you know? I had a blue ribbon around mine. I lay there peeping out from under my hat at the landscape and the sea and the sun. It was kind of funny. Suddenly I saw two figures leaping about on the rock above us. They would hide and then peek out. "There's a couple of boys looking at us," I told the girl. Her name was Katarina. "Let them look," she said, and turned over on her back. It was a strange feeling. I wanted to jump up and put my robe on but I just lay there on my stomach with my bottom in the air, not at all embarrassed, completely calm. Katarina lay there next to me the whole time, with her breasts and thick thighs. She just lay there sort of giggling to herself. I noticed that the boys had come closer. They just stood there looking at us. I noticed they were terribly young. Then one of them - the more daring of the two - came up and squatted down next to Katarina. He pretended to be busy picking at his toes. I felt so strange. Suddenly I heard Katarina say, "Hey, why don't you come over here?" She took him by the hand and helped him off with his jeans and shirt. Then suddenly he was on top of her. She guided him in with her hands on his behind. The other boy just sat on the slope and watched. I heard Katarina whisper in the boy's ear and laugh. His face was right next to mine. It was red and swollen. Suddenly I turned over and said, "Aren't you coming over to me too?" And Katarina said, "Go to her now." He pulled out of her and fell on top of me, completely hard. He grabbed my breast. It hurt so bad. I was ready somehow and came almost at once. Can you believe it? I was about to say, "Careful you don't get me pregnant" when he suddenly came. I felt it like never before in my life, the way he sprayed his seed into me. He gripped my shoulders and arched backward. I came over and over. Katarina lay on her side and watched and held him from behind. After he came, she took him in her arms and used his hand to make herself come. When she came, she screamed like a banshee. Then all three of us started laughing. We called to the other boy, who was sitting on the slope. His name was Peter. He came down, looking all confused and shivering despite the sunshine. Katarina unbuttoned his pants and started to play with him. And when he came, she took him in her mouth. He bent down and kissed her back. She turned around, took his head in both hands, and gave him her breast. The other boy got so excited that he and I started all over again. It was just as good as before. Then we went for a swim and parted ways. When I got home, Karl-Henrik was already back from town. We ate dinner and drank some red wine he'd brought. Then we had sex. It's never been as good, before or since. Can you understand that?

    • Sister Alma: I should go get your dinner tray -- fried liver and fruit salad. It looked quite good.

    • The Doctor: Sister Alma, what's your first impression?

      Sister Alma: I don't know what to say, Doctor. At first her face looks soft, almost childish, but then you see her eyes. Her expression's so hard.