Persona

Ingmar Bergman's 'Persona' follows Elisabet Vogler, an actress who suddenly stops speaking, and Alma, the nurse assigned to her care, as they retreat to an isolated island cottage. As the two women spend more time together, the boundaries between their identities begin to dissolve in deeply unsettling ways. Regarded as one of cinema's greatest achievements, the film is a haunting exploration of identity, psychological fragmentation, and the nature of the self.

• Directed by Ingmar Bergman while he was hospitalized with pneumonia.
• The film's title refers to the Latin word for mask.
• Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson became lifelong friends during filming.
• Bergman deliberately spliced in a frame of an erect penis.
• The film was shot in just five weeks on Fårö Island.

• Every tone that isn't a lie is silence.
• I feel like I could turn into you if I'm not careful.
• Can you be completely different people in one day?
• Perhaps, if I try hard enough, I can transform myself into you.
• The hopeless dream of being — not seeming, but being.