4º – The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)
A man decides to go to a clinic to do a procedure in which he will change his face. A priori, the procedure is successful, giving the man a new face and, consequently, a new life. However, as he begins to spend more time with his new face, man ends up having his personality altered from time to time, leading him, little by little, to the complete state of alienation from his essence. ‘The Face of Another’ shows us how our process of internal and external recognition is closely linked to our physical makeup.
3º – Nostalgia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983)
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to investigate the life of an eighteenth-century composer. Instead, wrapped in a melancholy and insignificant routine, the poet will meet an older man, whom the local people claimed to have gone mad for a short time, discovering more about himself and becoming confused with him. Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece.
2º – Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
Dissatisfied with his life, a middle-aged man decides to recruit a specialist company to give new lives to people, forging their deaths and giving them new faces. However, not everything is what it seems. Along with the new life arise new responsibilities perhaps too great for the man to hold. Great movie from the great director John Frankenheimer.
1º – Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
A nurse is charged with the mission of caring for an actress who has collapsed psychologically, taking refuge in a home away from other people’s contact. Isolated from the world, the two end up entering a symbiotic process, seeing their personalities and life choices unite in an irreversible cathartic process. Swedish masterpiece Ingmar Bergman, ‘Persona’ is an irredeemable film.
