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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...
Beyond Recall. The new thrust in movies took inception from the collapse of Hollywood in the early '50s and the revival of Europe as a center of film production. Since the European industry was small and loosely organized, such directors as Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard could pretty well shoot them as they saw them and let the censor take the hindmost. As a result, they made a number of fine far-out films (The Bicycle Thief, Wild Strawberries, 8½, L'Avventura, Hiroshima, Mon Amour...
Persona. Director Ingmar Bergman is modern cinema's most persistent observer of the human condition. He examines the Eden that is Sweden and sees-much as Bruegel once did in Flanders-that the occupants are really having a Hell of a time. Persona, his 27th film, fuses two of Bergman's familiar obsessions: personal loneliness and the particular anguish of contemporary woman. It is the story of a great stage actress (Liv Ullman), suddenly become mute and detached while starring in a production of Electra. She is afflicted with what medieval theologians called accidie-a total indifference...
...every forbidden game: masturbation, incest, sodomy, necrophilia, golf. It was shown only to the press and the festival jury, but Venice's Giovanni Cardinal Urbani felt obliged "again this year to express moral reserve." Retorted Director Zetterling, a 41-year-old former actress who learned her trade from Ingmar Bergman: "Censorship is such a highly complex affair. Things of violence, war, crimes-in Sweden this is the only thing we cut. But in another country, there are different moral values...