Bergman's film about the actual figure of Death is one of his funniest and, ultimately, most hopeful works.
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07/25/09
The Seventh Seal (1957)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:42
Rotten:3
Average Rating:9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Antonius Block (Max Von Sydow), a knight, returns from a 10-year crusade with his squire, Jöns (Gunnar Björnstrand), to find his homeland ravaged by the plague. When the black-cloaked figure of... [More]
Starring: Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max Von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Bengt Ekerot
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Reviews for The Seventh Seal
As a youth, perhaps no other film opened my eyes to the wonderful possibilities of cinema as much as The Seventh Seal.
06/21/09
I never realized what an astoundingly beautiful film it was.
06/18/09
Swedish cinema titan Ingmar Bergman's mopey/earthy 1957 breakthrough The Seventh Seal may have done more than any other film to popularize and demonize the notion of world cinema as the boutique of the cultural intelligentsia.
06/15/09
Perhaps no one film speaks more fully to the human condition than The Seventh Seal. [Blu-ray]
06/10/09
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03/26/09
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12/10/07
Its view of a seemingly godless landscape in the grip of plague is still bold and frightening.
12/07/07
Top Criticstill spiritually resonates today
09/25/07
It survives today only as an unusually pure example of a typical 50s art-film strategy: the attempt to make the most modern and most popular of art forms acceptable to the intelligentsia by forcing it into an arcane, antique mold.
07/30/07
Top CriticThe Seventh Seal is an existentialist masterpiece packed with stunning symbolism and mordant humour. It's also far more accessible that you might think. Go see it. Or else.
07/20/07
A cinematic masterpiece no film fan should miss.
07/20/07
Bergman's superbly shot wintry images, much like those of a silent film, print themselves indelibly on the mind, while the Knight's search for a God who never answers foreshadows the pessimism of the director's later work.
07/20/07
Not a friendly film, but in the consciousness of suffering, the search for meaning and the acceptance of death, all (or nearly all) of Bergman is in it.
07/20/07
Guaranteed to thunder on the big screen.
07/20/07
It is endlessly imitated and spoofed; it is also an august pinnacle of high-risk, high-art filmmaking, and one with a reputation for being far more forbidding and humourless than it actually is.
07/20/07
Ingmar Bergman's dark masterpiece effortlessly sees off the revisionists and the satirists; it is a radical work of art that reaches back to scripture, to Cervantes and to Shakespeare to create a new dramatic idiom of its own.
07/20/07
Ingmar Bergman’s black and white masterpiece The Seventh Seal has matured like a great wine over 50 years.
07/20/07
Full of haunting, iconic images and a touch of hopeful humanity, The Seventh Seal is cinema at its most artful, a philosophical meditation on the meaning(lessness) of this mortal coil.
07/20/07
Fear, peril and hoplessness soak every frame.
07/20/07
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