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Plot: An actress recovering from a mental breakdown develops an intense relationship with her nurse in this modernist, self-reflexive psychodrama.
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MCT:July 25, 2008My first Bergman film! I was impressed! It's sooo... fresh? I really don't know another way to describe it... it doesn't seem to have any restrictions.
Very intimate because of the close-ups, but the characters are inaccessible as well.
Vague, I know, but I'm still processing it, so maybe I'll say something useful and intelligible about it later.
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MCT:July 21, 2008Foi o primeiro filme do bergman que vi. Um filme intimista, que vai lá fundo no âmago, as personagens em um conhecimento mutuo sensacional muitas vezes embargado apenas em monologos, mas olhares e sorrisos também dizem muito e significam muito. Um filme com muita humanidade, cenas geniais, surpreendentes, imagens que te deixam hipnotizado. Alguma imagens o filme nem lhe fornece são histórias que a personagem conta. O Drama da ausência da palavra. Tocante.
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MCT:July 20, 2008
umm wow. it's been much copied but still makes an impact. the deconstructionist style effectively alienates the viewer but it's also fascinating to watch. very heavy. i wonder how much of this was inspired by bergman's affairs with both women, who were best friends as well!
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MCT:July 19, 2008
Most powerful personal experience I've ever had. Ingmar Bergman at his trully best. Both Bibi and Liv are unbelievable.
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MCT:July 18, 2008Okay so it's a 'modernist, self-reflexive psychodrama'- in other words, a boring weird over-the-top drag that tries to be arty and poetic but is actually just awful. For sure the worst swedish film I've yet seen and a huge disappointment after having enjoyed other Bergman films. By all means give it a try if you fancy watching one woman talk about herself and cry, and another woman (who looks like Geena Davis) stare in silence for 80 minutes. A star for some decent acting, and another half just for being swedish, but really not a good movie...
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MCT:July 11, 2008
Fractured. That is how you describe this. Moving, daring, and acted with such graceful fragility. A true classic.
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MCT:July 4, 2008
PAN AND SCAN. Aún debatiendo sus posibles interpretaciones, pero sin duda es uno de los más hermosos, sinceros y descarnados actos de autoreflexión por parte de un artista. / Still debating its possible interpretations, but it is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful, honest and raw self-reflective acts by an artist.
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MCT:June 21, 2008
Checking this one off the "must see it before I die" list. Was it a great film? Yes. Is it one I'd like to own and watch over and over and over again? No. Igmar Bergman's films are, for me, much like those of Fellini. They're masterpieces of modernist, expressionistic art but there is no personal connection. Intense? Yes! Recommended viewing? Of course. Empathetically recognizable? Absolutely not.
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MCT:June 2, 2008
heavy film. was the boy at the beginning elizabeth's son? was the nail to hand symbolizing that the entire film was going to be a crucifiction of the viewer? how many times did you want the nurse to just STFU! say what you will, it's hard to get this one out of my mind.
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MCT:May 3, 2008
Bergman's films are very difficult to understand. So I am not going to find out how many women really exist. I prefer to discuss one of the meanings behind. Even the brightest person will have his own dark side. Most horribly, we may not know about that. We even don't know who we are, how can we understand and help with others? Bergman's approach is very artistic as usual, but this one is an attractive one to me.
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MCT:April 25, 2008
Wow! This film is one of the best films I've ever seen. Liv Ullman and Bibi Andersson are fantastic.
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MCT:March 22, 2008
Ingmar Bergman set out to become the greatest filmmaker in the world. I think that with Persona, he succeeded. The film is an analysis of the artist's imagination viewed from the inside, of living symbols culled from the life of the man behind the camera. It also works beautifully as a character study. Persona is simultaneously moving and terrifying, sensual and intellectual. It goes further than any other film I know to push the boundary of what is possible in the cinema.
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MCT:March 17, 2008
Já o vi há um tempo mas é filme para ficar na memória principalmente pela originalidade e pelas duas excelentes prestações.
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MCT:March 6, 2008
Persona is a thing of beauty. Come to think of it, it represents everything that is so poignant about art : us viewers, without truly understanding what we are witnessing, are truly touched by it without having a definite idea why it is so. Bergman, at his very best here, captures the essence of life through the insecurities his characters are facing, and also pictures their refusal to live a life of unhappiness by having them confess to each other over and over again, with or without words. That is not to say, however, that everything here is about sadness, regret or guilt-- there is a fine study of desire and the very abstract notion of 'soulmate'. Persona is carried on the shoulders of Andersson and Ullmann, two legendary actresses whose performances are nothing short of magnetic here.
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MCT:January 31, 2008
Probablement la meilleure oeuvre de Bergman, surclassant même, et de loin, un de mes coups de coeur, soit Le septième sceau. Persona, c'est un poème visuel de 82 minutes qui nous laisse sans voix, qui use à merveille du néo-réalisme allemand pour définir la nature si cruelle du conditionnement humain. Persona aborde un thème que si peu de gens ont osés aborder, aborde le thème de ces petits mystères humains qui nous affectent sans que l'on ne sache réellement pourquoi, de ces petits déclics qui risquent à tout moment de nous rendre fous...
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MCT:January 21, 2008
My favorite film ever. I could watch it any time, gawk at the aesthetic beauty, marvel at the performances, and be tortured by the intensity. In stark black and white with shades of gray.
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MCT:December 29, 2007
My god is this a messed up movie, but that's why I really dug it. To explain the plot of this film would be besides the point, as it alters quite a bit over its running time. Let's just say there will be a LOT of unanswered questions and a bottomless number of ways the events in this film could be read as. Good stuff.
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MCT:December 27, 2007
Il manque quelque chose. J'ai eu des frissons, mais n'a pas été émue. Un poème visuel, certes. Mais ce n'est pas à cause de cela qu'il doit être voiléé en omettant la petite étincelle. Il y a plusieurs scènes intéressantes, surtout la dernière. Et la première aussi. Intéressant, peut-être à revoir afin de percer les mystères, mais pas le premier sur ma liste.
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MCT:December 22, 2007
This movie is good yeah. Well.. I´d like to know what this movie is supposed to reflect 4 u. I just wanna know your opinions. Everybody here posts comments about the geniality of Bergman but none speaks aboaut what the movie really says!
I think it contrasts human inner atitudes. Every woman in the movie is a part of personality... The nurse´s "glasses" are very important, for me, they mean that the nurse saw her patient like a "myth" and with admiration.
I´ll watch it again.
I think it is false that it has lesbianistic factors, it is about the mind.
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MCT:December 18, 2007This one is too complicated and deep for me. It's very confusing in the beginning and the end, I guess it's a typical auteurfilm.
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MCT:December 8, 2007
If you want to be shaken. A vigourous constant shake, that will jangle your thoughts free... this will do it to ya. But what I found was scary.
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MCT:November 30, 2007I'm not clever or sophisticated enough to enjoy many of Bergmans movies. I just don't like it. It's always slow, dark and nothing makes me want to see it till the bitter end.
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MCT:November 27, 2007
Ingmar Bergman's best film! This surrealistic movie explores human aspects in a way no one else has done before. Bergman's head shots are wonderful, we actually reinvented the aesthetic of human faces on film. He really knew how to pull the story in a way you can actually understand, being the story so complex and difficult to get to it. And also, Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson make excellent performances, specially Andersson who plays the most multidimensional character, one of the most intriguing in any movie I had seen.
Directing: 6!
Acting: 5
Story: 4.5
Originality: 5
Visual elements: 5
Impact: 5
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MCT:November 25, 2007
what a strange little absurd film?so rich and metaphorical in detail and meaning?.some people will be indulged by the visual complexes it represent, while others will sit there wondering what the film and the fuss was all about!
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a film that touches you.. after Persona nothing is the same... and any movie looks like it did before..
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