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Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)

No 17 in the BFI greatest films of all time as voted by Directors and critics.

Ingmar Bergman (Sweden ; 1966; 15)

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Thu 3 November 2022 // 19:30 / Cinema

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Number 17 in the BFI Greatest Films of All Time list - in a poll of current directors and top critics and also a big influence on David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.

A mysterious investigation into the nature of womanhood with the juxtaposition of conventional narrative with staccato, dreamlike images.

Bergman is a titan, a giant. No director comes close to the sheer quantity of such important films as Bergman, always thought provoking, hypnotic and prescient. A cinematic titan in every sense of the word, Andrei Tarkovsky reckoned him to be the greatest director ever.

"One of his fiercest, strangest, most sensually brilliant, enigmatic and unclassifiable pictures. Persona is a film to make you shiver with fascination, or incomprehension, or desire" - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian.

By the mid sixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, he attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women undergo a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference.

Performed with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by all-time great Cinematographer Sven Nykvist, the influential Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.

Do not miss this chance to see one of Bergman's most iconic films on the big screen!