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Persona is a word that defined masks, behind which the actors of ancient times. were hiding their faces, to go on stage.
Persona of Bergman is the most personal movie of the legendary director!
Starting the film, says directly to the viewer that he watches a movie and only a movie.The pictures help Begman to that.
In the middle of them,the film is cut off by stating,with this impressive directorial elaborate way,that everything in the movie is variable and fluid, and,so the film itself and generally the movie,is a dream,an image on a screen,confused with reality and especially with the existence of the artist.
The viewer doesn't know and never learns from what he sees is real,what is fiction and what is cinema.
In one of my favorites scenes,Alma describes the horrible feelings of Elizabeth for her child as being the same,while the camera focuses on the face of Elizabeth and in the next scene the dialogue is repeated unchanged,with the camera focus to Alma.Anything is true in this movie in one time can be disproved.
The two characters,Elizabeth and Alma,collide and complement each other,to reach the final,amazing,scene where the exchange personalities crossing their heads.
Now the performances.First of all Liv Ullmann is ,as required,so beautiful and sweet as to be eerie.Gives an excellent performance saying only a word:'nothing'.
Bibi Anderrsonn More human,according to the role and character,and very sexy,gives one of the best performances in the history of cinema.
With a few words Persona could be described as a philosophical essay of the search for identity and the contrast between silence and words, treatment and psychopathy and navigation on the limits of art.
With one word:Masterpiece.
10/10
