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Persona (VOSTF)
Location
Main screening room
Date
January 22nd, 2025
Duration
84 min
Cycle
Face-to-face

This program brings together several film duos, exploring the unique dynamics of face-to-face encounters. These interactions can take the form of a chase, a direct confrontation, a tense meeting behind closed doors, or a spectacular final showdown. Antagonists, doubles, adversaries, or alter egos: these are all troubled relationships that unite and tear apart the protagonists, between fascination and aversion.

Persona
Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
Language
Swedish with French subtitles
Actors
Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann
Origins
Sweden
Year
1966
Duration
84 min
Genre
Drama, thriller
Rating
13+
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

Elisabet Vogler, having lost the use of speech, is sent to convalesce on an island with a nurse, Alma. The two women are physically similar, but everything else is in opposition.

Persona
Awards

Ingmar Bergman

Born in 1918 in Uppsala, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman grew up in a strict Lutheran household. Cinema became a refuge for him, offering solace from his father's austere upbringing as a pastor. He pursued studies in history, literature, and theater, eventually embarking on a career in theater before transitioning to film. He began writing screenplays for Svensk Filmindustri. Starting with Crisis in 1946, he ventured into directing his own films. By the mid-1950s, works like The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries earned him international acclaim. In 1986, with the production of Fanny and Alexander, Bergman decided to end his illustrious career as a filmmaker for the big screen. However, he remained active in theater and television filmmaking until Sarabande in 2004. In his later years, he retired to the island of Fårö, a place deeply intertwined with his cinematic legacy and personal history.

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Cast
Olivier Assayas on Ingmar Bergman's "absurdly important" PERSONA | TIFF 2018
Liv Ullmann on the film Persona (Bergman, 1966)
Persona (1966) - Interview With Bibi Andersson, Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann (Eng Sub)
About Ingmar Bergman
Filmography
Ingmar Bergman en 9 minutes - Blow Up - ARTE
Michael Winterbottom's first-timer's guide to Ingmar Bergman | TIFF 2018
Quand le cinéma cite Ingmar Bergman - Blow Up - ARTE
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