Can It Be? “Persona” Turns 50
It wasn’t the first Bergman film I saw: that was “Cries and Whispers” (I was the sole patron in a cinema in Yankton, South Dakota.) But “Persona” was one of the two that affected me most deeply. (The other was “Face to Face.”) I can’t believe it’s 50 years old. Here, we learn about the process by which Bergman wrote the movie, and worked with its luminous stars, Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann.
