Persona /
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
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Format: | DVD |
Language: | Swedish English |
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[New York, New York] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2014]
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Edition: | Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition. |
Series: | Criterion collection ;
701. |
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Summary: | An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas. |
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Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Special features: DVD Disc 1: Persona's prologue : a poem in images (new visual essay on the film's prologue by Ingmar Bergman scholar Peter Cowie, 20 mins.); Interviews (Bibi Andersson, Ingmar Bergman, and Liv Ullmann (1966), Ingmar Bergman (1970), Liv Ullman (2013), Paul Schrader (2013)); On-set footage (18 mins. of silent, black-and-white footage shot during production, with audio commentary by Ingmar Bergman scholar Birgitta Steene); Trailer. DVD Disc 2: Liv & Ingmar (a 2012 feature documentary directed by Dheeraj Akolkar; 84 min.). Blu-ray contains all special features. Booklet features essay by film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, an excerpt from the 1970 book Bergman on Bergman, and an excerpted 1977 interview with Andersson. |
Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 Blu-ray disc (83 min. : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm). |
Format: | DVD, region 1, NTSC, full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono. Blu-ray, region A, full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono; requires Blu-ray player. |
Production Credits: | Photography, Sven Nykvist ; production design, Bibi Lindström ; costume design, Mago ; film editing, Ulla Ryghe ; music, Lars Johan Werle. |
ISBN: | 9781604658125 1604658126 |