BERGMAN'S "PERSONA" ('66)

Cross-posted with SO CAL EXPLORERS

Date: Monday, March 23, 8:00 pm

Venue: Frida Cinema
305 E 4th St #100, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Phone: (714) 285-9422

Dinner 6:30 4th St. Market 201 E 4th St, Santa Ana, CA 92701 a block away

Tickets: $13.00
https://thefridacinema.org/purchase/1442874/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZO01M8k1mg

Rotten Tomatoes gives a 91% positive rating

Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 84 min. Release Year: 1966 Language: Swedish

Starring: Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jörgen Lindström, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook

By the mid-sixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona*,* this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. Celebrate 60 years of his iconic film as we present it as a limited engagement, recently restored for the big screen.
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 perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema’s most influential creations.

Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by the great Sven Nykvist, Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth and one of the most influential films ever made.