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The Seventh Seal

Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal)

1957

Ingmar Bergman

Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson ...

8.1

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Drama 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 Death (Bengt Ekerot) appears to claim them, Block, whose war experiences have left him cynical about the existence of God and the afterlife, challenges Death to a game of chess to stall for time and gain some insight into the meaning of life ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The directness of 'The Seventh Seal' is its strength: This is an uncompromising film, regarding good and evil with the same simplicity and faith as its hero (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"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 (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Dark but beautiful (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A piercing and powerful contemplation of the passage of man upon this earth. Essentially intellectual, yet emotionally stimulating, too"	POS
United States	Zack Handlen AV Club	"There’s a lot going on in Ingmar Bergman’s 'The Seventh Seal', with its striking imagery, bawdy humor, and grim suffering; it’s a humane film about the inhumane inevitability of death."	POS
United Kingdom	David Gritten Telegraph	"[It] marked a turning point in cinema. Yet it changed film history (...) 'The Seventh Seal' asserted film as a medium that could ponder life, death and existential angst."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"[It] consists of a series of dull speeches spun on simple themes; Bergman barely tries to make the material function dramatically."	NEG
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"Prepare to fawn at Bergman’s most metaphysically profound film; you may even laugh (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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