NOR26 Closing Night: Persona

CLOSING NIGHT

Sunday, August 16
Luna Leederville

Enjoy an elderflower cocktail on arrival before we present Ingmar Bergman's radical masterpiece on the big screen, marking its 60th anniversary.

Arrivals 6:15pm
Session start: 6:30pm

Even before the mid-1960s, Bergman had already given cinema some of its most haunting and enduring imagery. With the audacious Persona, however, he pushed his artistry into uncharted territory.

Liv Ullmann, in the first of many iconic collaborations with Bergman, portrays a stage actress who has fallen into an unexplained silence, while Bibi Andersson is equally captivating as the talkative young nurse assigned to her care in a secluded island retreat.

Thrown together in this isolation, the two women experience a strange, slow merging of their inner lives. Shot by Sven Nykvist in a striking interplay of sharp contrast and delicate light, and acted with extraordinary subtlety, Persona remains a hypnotic and deeply unsettling meditation on identity and the human psyche.

Awards

WINNER - Best Film, Best Actress, Guldbagge Awards 1967
WINNER - Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, National Society of Film Critics Awards 1968
NOMINEE - Best Foreign Actress, BAFTA Awards 1968

1966 | Sweden
Swedish with English subtitles