In 1965 Ingmar Bergman filmed “Persona”, the cult film that brought together all of the Swedish filmmaker’s obsessions and became a turning point in his career.
Acting
Liv Ullmann's raw, decades-later reflections on the set's psychological intensity.
Direction
Blanc weaves archival gold with voices who actually lived Bergman's chaos.
Director
Manuelle Blanc
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bergman wrote Persona after being hospitalized with pneumonia and depression, convinced he'd never work again. The script became his creative exorcism.
Darius Khondji reveals Persona's famous double exposure shot was technically 'wrong' — overexposed and grainy — yet became the film's most imitated visual.
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