Persona (1966)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:27
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.7/10
Runtime: 84 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: PERSONA opens with a sequence of disassociated and disturbing images--a nail is driven into someone's hand, an animal is slaughtered, a boy is seated in front of the gigantic projection of a... [More]
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Margaretha Krook
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Reviews for Persona
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5/5 |
A work of many possible readings -- any of which provide deeply disturbing looks into the psyche of the characters or character. Full Review |
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Ingmar Bergman's best film, I suppose, though it's still fairly tedious and overloaded with avant-garde cliches. Full Review |
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Bergman has come up with probably one of his most masterful films technically and in conception, but also one of his most difficult ones. Full Review |
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An intense, challenging and complex experimental psychological drama. Full Review |
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One of Bergman's undisputed masterpieces is a seminal work of psychonalayis and metacinema, raising more complex questions about identity and role-playing than it could possibly answer, thus deliberately encouraging ambivalence and ambiguity. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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94/100 |
Not a movie, but a Film. And a Great Film it is. As good as any. Full Review |
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Bergman at his most brilliant. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
One of Ingmar Bergman's most beloved films. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Corajoso em sua abordagem narrativa, Bergman cria um dos mais densos dramas psicológicos do Cinema, quebrando as convenções da linguagem para expressar idéias e sentimentos.
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5/5 |
There are so many stunning monologues and unforgettable set-pieces in Persona that even at a modest 80 minutes, it feels fuller on the surface than most movies twice the length.
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...Bergman's penchant for strangeness eventually undercuts the effective elements. Full Review |
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[Persona] is persistently compelling, primarily due to its contemplative thematic structure, partially devoid of language that allows the spectator to inscribe meaning. Full Review |
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In Persona Bergman explores the cinematic medium and the remote depths of human subconscious, having abandoned the question of faith that had hitherto preoccupied him. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Miss Ullmann and Miss Andersson just about carry the film -- and exquisitely, too. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Bergman at his most atypically sensual, playful -- even Godardian. Full Review |
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Ingmar Bergman's haunting masterpiece explores the gulf of communication that exists between a nurse and her silent patient. Full Review |
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