Persona (1966)

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Ingmar Bergman’s PERSONA focuses on Alma (Bibi Andersson), a nurse whose patient – popular actress Elisabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann) – has suddenly stopped speaking. After they move to a cottage, Alma begins to confide in Volger, and the line between patient and caretaker begins to muddle. Seen by many as one of the greatest films ever made, Bergman’s most personal film is complex, twisted, sensual, and at times utterly hopeless. Andersson and Ullmann are completely engrossing in their roles, taking the viewer down a rabbit hole of psychological unease that’s not unlike a horror movie. PERSONA is beautifully shot and a brilliant web of the female psyche, but above all, it is a staggering achieve

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