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Film · 1957 · Drama
The Seventh Seal
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
1957
Sweden
★ 8.3 editorial score
No image from any film has been parodied more: a knight plays chess with Death on a beach, and Bergman is completely serious about the question underneath it.
“"The Seventh Seal" has more in common with the silent film than with the modern films that followed it--including his own. Perhaps that is why it is out of fashion at the moment. Long considered one of the masterpieces of cinema, it is now a little embarrassing to some viewers, with its stark imagery and its uncompromising subject, which is no less than the absence of God.”
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