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Persona

1966

Ingmar Bergman

Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jörgen Lindström

8.1

24,645

Drama A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk and finds that the actress's persona is melding with hers.

	Author	Review
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Ingmar Bergman's best film, I suppose, though it's still fairly tedious and overloaded with avant-garde cliches"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A film we return to over the years, for the beauty of its images and because we hope to understand its mysteries"	POS
United Kingdom	Derek Adams Time Out	"Bergman at his most brilliant (...) Not an easy film, but an infinitely rewarding one"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"Mr. Bergman has magnificently and sensitively composed a veritable poem of two feminine spirits exchanging their longings, repressions, and mental woes against a background of natural beauty and the atmosphere of the sea."	POS
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"[It] expanded what cinema could do in terms of both abstract montage and the juxtaposition of human faces"	POS
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"'Persona' remains intensely alive and intimate (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Wonderfully complex but warmly human, Bergman's drama is one of his very best (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	The Globe and Mail	"'Persona' still conveys a power to lift the scalp and scramble the brain"	POS

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