Influence On Other Films
Bergman features prominently in Woody Allen’s films. Love and Death references Persona in its final minutes; two characters are lined up, one facing the camera, the other at a 90-degree angle, with their mouths in the same space, just as in Persona.
David Lynch's surreal noir Mulholland Drive is heavily influenced by Persona; including, but not limited to, an actress character and similar questions concerning identity, as well as a visual nod to Persona's famous merging of women's faces.
Robert Altman’s impressionist film 3 Women is also influenced by Persona as Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek begin to shift roles/identities.
Charlotte Gainsbourg was stated as saying Lars von Trier told her and Kirsten Dunst to study the nurse-patient relationship for their roles in his 2011 film "Melancholia".
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