DVD & Blu-Ray: Ingmar Bergman's PERSONA (Criterion Collection)

Product Description: By the mid-sixties, Ingmar Bergman (THE SEVENTH SEAL) had already conjured many of the cinema's most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann (SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE) plays an actress who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson (WILD STRAWBERRIES) 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 that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas. Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark shadows and soft light by the great Sven Nykvist (CRIES AND WHISPERS), PERSONA is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.

Read more about the movie and special features after the jump.

• Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook
  
• Director: Ingmar Bergman
  
• Writer: Ingmar Bergman
  

• Rated: Not Rated
• Runtime: 83 min
• Studio: Criterion Collection

• Language: Swedish
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Region: Region A/1

Buy from Amazon.com (Click links to order / pre-order):

• DVD ($69.99) - 1 Disc
• Criterion Collection Blu-ray + DVD ($34.99) - 3 Discs
• Amazon Instant Video

Special Features:

• New, 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New visual essay on the film's prologue by Ingmar Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
• New interviews with actor Liv Ullmann and filmmaker Paul Schrader
• Excerpted archival interviews with Bergman, Ullmann, and actor Bibi Andersson
• On-set footage, with audio commentary by Bergman historian Birgitta Steene
• Liv & Ingmar, a 2012 feature documentary directed by Dheeraj Akolkar
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, an excerpt from the 1970 book Bergman on Bergman, and an excerpted 1977 interview with Andersson

Ratings:

• IMDb.com: 8,2/10 from 40.632 users
• Rottentomatoes: 92% (34 fresh, 3 rotten, score: 8.9/10).
• Metacritic: N/A

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