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Persona

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Persona is a 1966 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson as a nurse assigned to care for Liv Ullmann as an actress who has stopped speaking, the two women isolated together at a remote seaside house as their identities begin to blur and merge. The film is built around stark black and white close-ups and an experimental, self-conscious style, including a famous shot combining halves of both actresses' faces into a single composite image. Persona is widely regarded as one of Bergman's most formally daring films and among the most influential works of modernist art cinema.

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Release Year
1966 1
Country
Sweden 1
Classification
Original Language
Swedish 1
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  • Persona (1966 film), lead section, release year
    Persona is a 1966 Swedish psychological drama film written, directed, and produced by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann.
  • Persona (1966 film), lead section, country
    Persona is a 1966 Swedish psychological drama film written, directed, and produced by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann.
  • Persona, Description, original language
    Persona is a 1966 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson as a nurse assigned to care for Liv Ullmann as an actress who has stopped speaking, the two women isolated together at a remote seaside house as their identities begin to blur and merge.
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