Persona

A nurse is asked to treat an actress who refuses to speak and have any contact with her family. The hospital believes the condition is self willed so a young unassuming nurse is enlisted to dig at the reasons behind this peculiar act. The two women get to know each other intimately and challenge each other to find their bounds and limits. At one point the film stops being chronological and straight forward and takes on a narrative that illustrates the complexes of both personalities. Persona is one of the richest experiences in all of cinema. The appreciation only deepens with every viewing. Bergman always had an idea to film the subconscious and soul on camera. He's done many films to many levels of quality, but no film seems to match Bergman's ambition the way Persona does. It is unbelievable that a film under 90 minutes and made in 1966 is still one of the complex portraits for an art form, but Persona is one of the few perfections we have.