content: As a college film instructor, I find Persona a wonderful text for students to begin to understand the ways film language operates. With it, the critical viewer can surpass content-based approaches to film and begin to understand the way film communicates visually. Not only do I find the film valuable for my students, but myself as well. I love to watch it and unravel its complex and compelling messages. In approaching such a bold and innovative work, I find much of what I love in movies. That experience is beautiful. Persona is one of the few films which can do that for me as well as it does.