Fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant

Persona (1966)

dir. Ingmar Bergman,

Persona (1966), dir. Ingmar Bergman

“…we are alike in a way. I think I could turn myself into you. If I made a real effort. I mean inside. You could turn yourself into me just like that.”

Persona (1966) | Ingmar Bergman

Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann & Ingmar Bergman on the set of “Persona”

Persona - Ingmar Bergman - 1966

Bibi Andersson

I think I could turn into you if I really tried. I mean inside.

I am not Elisabet Vogler. You are Elisabet Vogler.

Your hiding place isn’t watertight. Life trickles in everywhere, and you’re forced to react. No one asks if it’s true, if you’re genuine or false. Such questions matter only in the theatre, and hardly there either. 

Persona | dir. Ingmar Bergman (1966)

- Do you never stop asking questions? - No. Never. - Yet you get no answers.

Bibi Andersson in Italy, 1960.