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Mar 17, 2006 · Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 `Persona’ a successful personal experiment. By Staff Reports. PUBLISHED: March 17, 2006 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 21, 2021 at 5:31 p.m. One of the...
The influence of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona is legion. This short video-essay uses but 29 examples to position his masterpiece in terms of what came after it (from Apocalypse Now and The Silence of the Lambs to Heat, The Truman Show and Fight Club) and what went before (from Orphée and Vertigo to Psycho and Shadows). It shows how Bergman ...
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Jan 14, 2014 · The film was narrated by Ullmann, and film clips in the documentary are, in the words of reviewer Stephen Holden, “skillfully used to illustrate the shadowy line between art and autobiography….” (After their breakup, Ullmann had a reasonably successful career in films—including major work with Bergman—and on the stage.
- Persona―Theatrical Mask
- The Journey Begins
- The Individual
- History
- Social Order
Among all film critics, Jacques Mandelbaum’s descriptions perhaps best fit the theme of the discussion below: the film is about “the reversible nature of appearances, the porosity of faces and absolute deprivation.” 2 The theatrical promotional posters of Persona, which advertised with the close-up shots of the lead actresses, confirm the importanc...
In Persona, such exploration of the dark side of humanity starts off with the filming process, with film rolling and filming equipment turning on. This scene echoes with the ending scene, in which the audience will again see the same filming process. Such matching works function as a hint to show that this film is about the filming of a film, that ...
Segregation from the outside world begins at the beginning of the film, when the psychiatrist assigns Elisabet to nurse Alma in a mental hospital. Elisabet is then seen in her vast hospital room, equipped with nothing but a bed, a radio and a television. The radio and television shows are the only intrusions from the outside world in the all-encomp...
Earlier in Persona, Elisabet is seen pacing around her hospital room while the television shows a clip believed to be the self-immolation by Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức in 1963 in protest of the government’s persecution of Buddhist monks, to which Elisabet recoils in a horrified facial expression. Elisabet will face similar human atrocities aga...
As mentioned above, imprisonment does not only appear as a motif in Persona, it also appears in Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander. Alexander and his sister Fanny’s disobedience brought them punishments―being locked up in the attic by their stepfather Bishop Edvard. Ismael is also imprisoned on the lowest level of the house, for his possession of the ex...
Apr 8, 2013 · Persona is the angry guy at the bar scream-asking you if you want to fight. But it hits that perfect balance of being bizarre but still magnetic. Experimental, but still grounded in story.
Dec 7, 2020 · Enter Persona, the tragic story of an actress who cannot separate herself from her roles. She's part of the artificial reality of filmmaking and the wonder of whether or not she means anything outside of the fake story she inhabits. This causes a mental breakdown.
Mar 17, 2016 · Achieved by Bergman’s refusal to let the illusion of ordinary space develop, it substitutes instead a properly “cinematic” space—without, however, destroying that sense of psychological realism, so necessary to any involvement in the interpersonal drama unfolding.
