The final sequence is especially praised, with Jonathan Rosenbaum and others regarding it as one of the more effective scenes in Antonioni's oeuvre. Director Martin Scorsese, in his documentary about Italian films titled "My Voyage to Italy", describes how the film haunted and inspired him as a young moviegoer, noting it seemed to him a "step forward in storytelling" and "felt less like a story and more like a poem." He adds that the ending is "a frightening way to end a film... but at the time it also felt liberating. The final seven minutes of "Eclipse" suggested to us that the possibilities in cinema were absolutely limitless." In the 2012 "Sight & Sound" polls conducted by the British Film Institute, "L'Eclisse" was voted in both the critics' and directors' polls as one of the 100 greatest films of all time.