Persona
Films it shaped
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He tells how he recalled the scene in the prologue to Persona (1966)... and how it found its final form in Cries and Whispers (1972).
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['Persona'] influenced me by the idea of an intense relationship, a conversation between two women, where one of them is silent. That conversation is very special. And I remember the presence of Bibi Andersson in the bed, very still. That image has followed me for many, many years. It was an influence for me from a visual point of view for the scenes of the main characters in the bed.
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Hereditary Atlas note
Ari Aster has cited Ingmar Bergman repeatedly, specifically the way Bergman uses family as a crucible for psychological destruction. Persona, Hour of the Wolf, Cries and Whispers, Bergman's films are horror films that refuse to call themselves that. The grief at the center of Hereditary, the way trauma passes through families like a curse, this is Bergman's territory. Hour of the Wolf is Bergman's actual horror film and is streaming on the Criterion Channel.
