By skyforbes There's a particular shot at the beginning of Cries and Whispers, an Ingmar Bergman chamber drama from the 70s. The sun coming through the branches of a tree in morning mist casts particularly beautiful shafts of light. It's not the most complicated shot, and I'm sure there's plenty of stock footage or maybe like meditation videos that include shots that are technically as accomplished as it, but it really stuck in my brain. And while Cries and Whispers is mostly pretty lowkey, there are some far more haunting scenes in it. I could describe three shots of the top of my head that I'm confident are considered the "iconic" shot from Cries and Whispers, to the extent it has any. But it's that one shot that's now the first place my brain goes when someone says that the cinematography of a movie is beautiful.