Persona

Running time: 83 mins

Synopsis

In celebration of its 60th anniversary, Ingmar Bergman's modernist masterpiece returns to the big screen.

Exploring the volatile relationship between an actress and her nurse, Persona charts the increasingly tense battle of wits between the chatty Alma (Bibi Andersson) and the mute Elisabet (Liv Ullmann), who are isolated together in a cottage on the island of Fårö. With a rich, resonant mix of related themes – the vampiric nature of art, the complex fragility of personality, the difficulty of communication – the film is arguably Bergman’s most audacious and formally innovative work, multi-levelled yet utterly lucid. Subtitled.