Begins With P

I was watching Persona (1966), which many consider the central film in Ingmar Bergman's oeuvre. Certainly Bergman saw it as crucial to his career.

It ends with the camera turning away from the actors and showing the crew shooting the film.  I thought not bad, but Jerry Lewis did it two years earlier in The Patsy.  And don't forget, Lewis was just as much an auteur as Bergman, writing and directing, as well as starring, in his films.  I don't know if Bergman ever acknowledged his debt.  (At least Godard admitted his set in Tout Va Bien was inspired by Lewis's The Ladies Man.)

Here's my favorite moment from The Patsy.