Persona | Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann | Persona: One of the great contributions to film.

Persona | Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann | Persona

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Persona

	Persona Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann MGM (Video & DVD), 2004 average customer review:based on 73 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

With some of the most iconic imagery ever committed to film this exceptionally beautiful specimen of movie-making (The New Yorker) is recognized as a modern masterpiece and a landmark in late twentieth-century art (Time Out London). Actress Elisabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann) has stopped speaking and withdrawn completely. Under doctor s orders she s taken to a remote seaside cottage by a nurse Alma (Bibi Andersson). Alma chats to fill the silence and gradually begins to lay bare her entire identity until she discovers it is being coolly sucked away from her. As the women battle for control and sanity the question becomes not which of them is patient and which is caregiver but are they two separate women at all?Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN Rating: NR UPC: 027616902221 Manufacturer No: 1005993

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Persona: One of the great contributions to film.

As a student of film for some ten years, I've seen over 40 of Bergman's films. Of them, Persona is one of about 4 out of something like 50 that stand out as absolutely crucial in the development of film. There might not be the ostensible progress in film, and especially TV we see today without the few films like Persona. Historically it's very important, but for someone interested in seeing Bergman's best. Persona, Cries and Whispers, The Silence, Fanny and Alexander, Wild Strawberries, and just to be thorough, The Seventh Seal, are the ones to see. Persona itself will live on in the annals of film as one of it's greatest and most daring achievements.

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Persona

One of the director's more surreal, experimental works, "Persona" is an intriguing study of mental illness, role reversal, and the somewhat hazy boundary separating one individual identity from another. In the poetic opening shots culled from old reels, Bergman makes us aware we are watching a film, but the story itself derives emotional intensity from Bibi Andersson's Alma, who becomes ever more vulnerable the deeper she plumbs her life experience. "Persona" is a spooky, mind-bending film that casts a unique spell.

Great film, Good quality DVD

This is one of Bergman's best and more challenging films. If you have any interest in Bergman or in film this is definitely a must see. I just wish Criterion released this, as they've always been more generous on the supplement side. That minor quibble aside, this is a great film, by one of the medium's true masters. (I've run out of clichés so I'll end the review here)

-Note if you're just starting out getting to know Bergman, I suggest Wild Strawberries or Smiles of a Summer Night-

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Bergman's Dissonance

Because of its incongruous mixture of images, the opening montage of this film brings to mind the adagio introduction at the beginning of the first movement of Mozart's String Quartet in C Major (K. 465), the so-called "Dissonance". The both introductions clearly create the feeling of angst.

This rather complex film reminds us how our knowledge of ourselves, and especially of others, has its natural, insurmountable limits. Because we all wear masks (at least to some degree) our knowledge of what exactly is going on inside someone's mind (including our own) simply cannot be complete. In this respect we do not live in some sort of a perfect, unambiguous, deterministic, Newtonian world, but rather we live in a world akin to that of quantum mechanics, with all its uncertainties and probabilities. Other people, no matter how hard they try, can never understand us completely.

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