- Release Date: 1967
- Runtime: 85 min
- Genre: Drama, Mystery
- Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand ... see all
- Director: Ingmar Bergman
- Plot: A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma... Read more
User Reviews
Never in the lifie
Sep 30, 2005
carupano69 - yahoo.com
Sep 30, 2005carupano69 - yahoo.com
I saw a very interetring film. The Acting of the Actors is great. Sometime you have to go back in you want to catch evrything... Full review
A Film to Watch Over and Over
Aug 19, 2005
ted14_us - yahoo.com
Aug 19, 2005ted14_us - yahoo.com
This is simply Bergman's greatest work. This was the peak of all his work. I see traces of it in films by Fassbinder, Wanders, Allen, and, of course, Walt Diseny.... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Jul 30, 2007The Denver Post
The film distilled the essence of Bergman's work - high seriousness, flashes of unexpected humor and striking images.
The case caused an enormous uproar in the media and Bergman had a mental breakdown that sent him to hospital for over a month.
... Full Review
| Nov 07, 1967Chicago Sun-Times
the audience is frustrated by the movie:....now there is a sound track too.....Bergman's preoccupation with illusion and reality seems to be tied into the plot of " Persona ," which involves a neurotic actress ( Liv Ullmann ) and her nurse ( Bibi Andersson ).....The nurse is maddened by the unspeaking actress in the same sense.... ... Full Review
| Nov 07, 1967Chicago Sun-Times
the audience is frustrated by the movie:....now there is a sound track too.....Bergman's preoccupation with illusion and reality seems to be tied into the plot of "Persona," which involves a neurotic actress (Liv Ullmann) and her nurse (Bibi Andersson).....The nurse is maddened by the unspeaking actress in the same sense.... ... Full Review
Entertainment Insiders
Telling us in detail his six most fearsome demons, explaining to us the problems of having an affair with Liv Ullmann while still seeing Bibi Anderson during the making of his masterpiece Persona , the consequences of being a miserable, non-existent father to nine children. ... Full Review
Q Network Film Desk
Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" is one of the rare films that is acutely aware of itself as a film.
All of this at first seems to be a series of pointless images splashed for purely aesthetic effect.
... Full Review
News
Auteurs: Persona & Obsession
associatedcontent.com –
2009-09-05
"If there must be a god in the house let him be one that does not speak."-Wallace Stevens The first temptation is to call them the "Hemingways" of cinema. ... Full Article
Persona: Landscape of the Face
dearcinema.com –
2009-05-10
Images from the Playground, a compilation film containing previously unseen material from nine of Ingmar Bergman's behind-the-screens films, from Sawdustand Tinsel to Persona, will be screened for the first time, at the Cannes Film Festival this year. ... Full Article
Forty movies every film fan should see
salon.com –
2002-10-30
"Persona" (written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1966) Has the cinematic breakthrough represented by "Persona" been so abused by generations of TV commercials and music videos that it now appears trite? ... Full Article
One of Ingmar Bergman's most beloved films has Liv Ullmann as an actress who mysteriously clams up and stops speaking in the middle of a performance. ... Full Article

Persona - trailer
Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
Persona Snapshots
Twilight Sequence from Persona

