Twilight Sequence from Persona

[ajgree6]

This is one of those films...well...

I guess the best way I can put it...

I'll never forget the day I first saw this in film school. I payed so much money and just messed around instead of taking my studies seriously. I left class that day with the greatest feeling one can have after watching a movie. I hated film school but I'll never forget the professor who introduced this film to us. That feeling will stay with me forever. Hauntingly beautiful.

[rene0g0ade]

Beautiful shot. Feel sorry for those who criticies this without being nasty... it's like they can't feel any kind of passion =(

[toxichewingum]

I just dont like her and can't see anything alluring about this scene

[Bluzme]

@toxichewingum she plays a rotten woman in the film, but I wouldn't think she's the same in real life - it's called acting

[tonyismylove100]

what year was this made in?

[calciumkid85]

1966. now i'm still looking for this movie. Anyone?

It truly had stunned many viewers, including many great directors in this era

Simply brilliant!

[greenwanders]

Please - what is the music in this scene?

[cunoamit]

It's from J. S. Bach - perhaps BWV 1042

[greenwanders]

Thanks Cunoamit!

[adriantrench]

i first watched this film when i was stoned and this scene completely blew my mind. it was my first bergman film. my friends were falling asleep but i was hooked. but the fading light seemed to have taken an eternity when i was high, that's what impressed me so much. now it passes much quicker.

[Casablanca3491]

This scene is haunting and beautiful, a true piece of camerawork gold, and if you cannot see it, I do not know wht screen you are looking at, but it sure isn't mine!

[biotonk]

genius loci

[konamikoden]

Where is the "amazing camerawork" ?? I can't see it...

"It is the style of Bergman fashioned over the soul of his actors."

- Are you gay? You are a desperate humanbeing if you are so easily impressed with this "art".

[moviebuff332]

An intriguing and respectable one, but I have to disagree. As any true actor will tell you, their performance rests on the creative team behind the camera, principally the director. It is through them that the actor is fully able to ask question, receive motivation and encouragement and truly able to deliver what is being shown here. It is the style of Bergman fashioned over the soul of his actors. A perfect hybrid in cinema.

[mac51685]

yeah, i have to agree with you. i don't understand why film schools pound bergman and italian cinema into their students head. as if that's the only worthy cinema from around the world. it is somewhat pretentious, i have to agree. its just drawn out and dull, and if it weren't for the music, this scene wouldn't be remotely engaging.

[biotonk]

that is why the music is there dummy

[vittoriostoraro]

One of the hauntingly beautiful shots in the history of film !

[fotomundo]

I agree