Bergmanesque

It may sound like the wrong thing to say but this shot of Liam Neeson and Vanessa Redgrave at yesterday’s funeral for the late Natasha Richardson in Millbrook, NY., looks like a carefully composed shot (certainly in terms of lighting and framing) from a feature. Not a super-immaculate Vittorio Storaro composition but like something out of a Noah Baumbach film. One glance and you can feel it. Gray skies, somber garb, bush branches, despairing looks.