SCREENING INFORMATION
| 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem, PA 18015
*Ages 25 and under & senior discounts apply at the box office only.
| Price | Seniors 60+ and ages 25 & under* | ArtsQuest Member | |
| Regular | $13.50 | $11.50 | $10 |
| Matinee | $10.50 | $10.50 | $10 |
| Half Off Tuesdays | On Tuesdays, tickets are 50% off all day long | ||
*Ages 25 and under & senior discounts apply at the box office only.
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Persona
1966 | NR | 1 hr 23 mins
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann
By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage.
While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema’s most influential creations. Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by the great Sven Nykvist, Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A/talkback with Heath Mensher, Literary Arts Faculty at Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts.
Heath Mensher
Heath Mensher (he/him) has been a filmmaker, television writer, screenwriter, location scout, and Hollywood personal assistant on NBC’s “The West Wing.” He has worked behind the scenes on over 40 films with directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Lee, and Aaron Sorkin. He holds a Masters Degree in Education and teaches film theory, filmmaking, and screenwriting.