Persona. Ingmar Bergman, 1966.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #701, included in Criterion Blu-ray set Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, released 2018. Swedish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 83 minutes.
Summary: Killing of a sheep.
Details: The introductory montage includes a close up of a man’s hands holding a sheep’s head while a thin black ribbon of blood runs from the animal’s neck. This begins at 1:44, then cuts at 2:06 to a 4-second sequence of the man’s hands manipulating some internal organs.
This phenomenal film is disc #22 of 30 in the Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema set, and is accompanied by Dheeraj Akolkar’s 2012 documentary Liv & Ingmar, a 20-minute video essay about Persona’s famous introduction by Peter Cowie, and interviews with Bergman, cast members, and Paul Schrader.