PERSONA (1966): 60th Anniversary
A stage actor who has fallen silent and her talkative nurse are isolated together at a remote island cottage, where their identities mysteriously merge in Ingmar Bergman's landmark psychological drama.
Description
By the mid-sixties, Ingmar Bergman had already created many of cinema’s most unforgettable images. With his landmark drama PERSONA, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, the enduring filmmaker reached new heights of visual poetry.
Liv Ullmann, in her first of many legendary collaborations with Bergman, plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone silent. Bibi Andersson is equally mesmerizing as the garrulous young nurse caring for her at a remote island cottage. Isolated together, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference in a scene that has come to influence generations of filmmaking. Shot by the great Sven Nykvist, PERSONA remains a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.
Part of the 38th Annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Producer
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand
Cinematographer
Sven Nykvist
Editing
Ulla Ryghe