TWILIGHT ROOM OF THE SOUL: PERSONA

Saturday, October 20th at 3:00pm

Sunday, october 21st at 5:00pm

Directed by Ingmar Bergman 
1966, Sweden, 83 min 
Swedish with English subtitles

Saturday, October 5 Introduced by George Toles.

By the mid-sixties, Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema's most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, he attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference. Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by Sven Nykvist, the influential Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.