"Today I Feel That in person, and Later in Cries and Whispers, I HAD gone as far as I Could Go. And That In These two instances when to working in total freedom, I wordless secrets That Touched only discover the dog cinema. " -Ingmar Bergman. There is no doubt that Ingmar Bergman always appear on lists of the best directors in the history, however Person is a remarkable milestone even this venerable Swedish filmmaker, whose deep knowledge of the dark recesses of the mind allowed to play with themes as varied as extraordinary.
The opening sequence of people instantly tells the viewer that is not in the presence of Bergman's classic The Seventh Seal or The Virgin Spring, but you will experience the work of an avant-garde director, obsessed with destroying boundaries imposed by the conventions of cinema, to create a new cinematic language and comprising deep and incisive as a set of important topics of the human psyche.
The script, which Bergman weapon from the isolation that causes your hard recovery from fulminant pneumonia, resulting in an intensely minimalist film, where all development focuses on the relationship of love, hate and dependency that develops between Liv Ullmann, an actress who loses speech as a product of a nervous breakdown during a performance of a play and Bibi Andersson, the naive nurse who assigned care for the diva in a completely isolated cabin.
Despite the machismo that is always attributed to the personality of Bergman, the deep study of the female psyche deployed is absolutely amazing person and develops an overwhelming brilliance, gradually immersing the viewer in the deterioration suffers the relationship between the two main characters, whose dynamic communicative transmitter-receiver makes a grotesque indivisible unit.
Both Ullmann and Andersson left the soul in the interpretation of their roles, exposing a theatrical crudeness that inevitably affects the viewer, which can highlight one of the most erotic monologues in film history, Andersson declaims shamelessly before a camera that voyeuristic nude on a sofa, while Ullmann, with his wild facial expressions, he manages to disturb no more than fourteen words to say throughout the film.
With a career already established at that time, Bergman decided to break free of convention, forgetting complete the public and creating with his director of photography, Sven Nykvist, absolutely innovative film, where in addition to reduced production to a minimum, has the luxury of interrupting the narrative flow with streams full of symbols or repeat whole sequences to perceive them from different points of view, in an experimental game is so striking and impressive.
Ignored by film awards at the time, I suppose because of his radical experimentation and innovation level, but now considered almost unanimously as one of the best films in history, Person is one of the most perfect films I've been lucky enough to see.
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