Harry Rossi
21May13
If that makes any sense...
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Harry Rossi
21May13
Upon 2nd viewing I've come to realize how wrong I was and just how great this movie is! Seeing it on 35mm really helped. At one point the projectionist messed up and the image was blurred. The same thing happened later on, except it was part of the actual shot. Having two blurred shots, one unintentional and one intentional was a great postmodern experience and was the moment I realized how great this film is.
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Federico Di Folco
26Mar13
Registicamente esagerato(la pellicola che impazzisce,i meravigliosi piani-sequenza sulla spiaggia,la continua alternanza di luce,penombra e oscurità,la sovrapposizione dei volti che restano però sempre in due unità distinte...),Bergman ci conduce in un fantastico viaggio introspettivo,una lunga seduta psicoanalitica in cui le due donne,reduci da esperienza traumatiche,confluiscono in una specie di osmosi.Grandioso.
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Jack Rientoul
14Mar13
Great film! ashamed to say it was only my first Bergman film but it will definitely not be my last, loved it!
DT
1Jan13
Radical cinematography in this reflection on film itself, one of both obliquities and immediacy: the purpose of art towards its subject and audience, the artifice and escapism, the moving image as a window to the human spectrum, its effect on individual psyche, so reflected in two women. The intimacies of Andersson’s agent fully bared, as Ullman’s trauma patient - an actor - listens, and as we observe both, before being herself torn apart by the voyeurism; the personas blurred, the plurality of the camera thence realised. Stimulating, bold study.
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Beatrice
10Dec12
" The hopeless dream of being - not seeming, but being. At every waking moment, alert. The gulf between what you are with others and what you are alone."
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novanindro
22Nov12
an absolute masterpiece in some aspects bringing reminiscences of antic tragedies
Lynch/Fellini
9Nov12
I am yet to see an Ingmar Bergman film that does not deserve anything less then a 5/5 and I have to say this continues his streak! Persona is brilliant!
Scottie Ferguson
13Oct12
Just watched this for the third time. I'm eating my words; for me, this has gone from most overrated movie ever, to really good, to mind-blowing masterpiece. One of, if not the, best Bergman films I've seen.
Alcock Hitchfred
13Sep12
There is no other film like this. I feel it's still inside of me, breathing and grazing my soul. A life-changing masterpiece.
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Toto Giancaldo
31Aug12
This amazing scene when she talks about the two boys while the mute actress is listening...
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Dara Drea O'Neill
15Aug12
Striking imagery and crispness of sound. What timeless style. Either my subtitles were muggy or I wasn't educated enough to truly explore the message.
Bryon Thomas
13Aug12
Sublime exploration of the duality of personality and the multiplicity truth. The apex of selfconsciousness in cinema.
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Chin Camposano
22Jun12
Only Bergman could create this artsy piece of cinema that translates the psyche and pierces the soul.
Trolley Freak
12Jun12
Emerging from a prolonged bout of ill-health and determined to re-establish his reputation after mixed reviews for his previous few films, Bergman inaugurated a fertile period of his career with this absorbing and intense masterpiece. The distinctions between the real and the imaginary are deliberately blurred in what is essentially a two-hander with brilliant performances by Andersson and Ullmann. Dazzlingly good...
CRW
7Jun12
One of my least popular opinions and one I did not expect to hold: This is utter nonsense. Dull as all HELL. Total balls. A slut venting, intermixed with irrelevant images. No wonder my hipster friends love it. The stars I give are for Sven Nykvist.
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Riley Jessett
12May12
The first dialogues at the cottage between Alma and Vogler alone make the film great. However, much of the rest of the film is full of the typical ambivalence of Bergman's characters that I can never sympathize with and grow tired of, not to mention the uncharacteristic lapses into surrealism that further isolate the viewer.