Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PERSONA. Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman's 27th film (and first in 2½ years) is a difficult but rewarding study of the psychological transference between an actress (Liv Ullman), who stops participating in life, and a nurse (Bibi Andersson), whose personality becomes enmeshed in that of her actress patient...
PERSONA. Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman's 27th film (and first in 2 years) is a difficult but rewarding study of the psychological transference between an actress (Liv Ullman), who stops participating in life, and a nurse (Bibi Andersson), whose personality becomes enmeshed in that of her actress-patient...
...confined to one part of the stage, the acting goes nicely. Reynolds Smith is excellent as the wolf in "The Little Girl and the Wolf," and as the doctor in "The Pet Department." Judith Anderson is a most talented bourgeoise the part she plays in three sketches. A fine actress she, the best in the show. Peter W. Schandorff serves well as an Englishman and a Viennese...
Slowly and subtly, a transference begins; the actress cannot, or will not, speak about her husband and son; the nurse cannot stop speaking-about herself. In explicit detail, the nurse describes an erotic beach encounter with an unknown boy, and the pregnancy and abortion that followed. Without realizing it, the babbling nurse has become the patient and the silently listening patient the nurse...
...When the actress writes a letter to the doctor revealing her nurse's past tragedy, the nurse savagely turns on her, implying that she is playing Electra in real life as well as on the stage. The outburst serves as a catharsis that seems to make the nurse well. In the end, she leaves the villa to return to life; the actress, presumably, returns to the stage...