7/20/15
3.5/4
With the glorious Seventh Seal, I conclude my Bergman quintuplet and shall now focus more on other areas of cinema.
For me, The Seventh Seal is on par with Persona. It provided the experience original enough and affecting enough to negate its age and make its ideological feast worth going through.
I loved the chess sequences, the Death dialogue, the pitch-black humor, the haunting religious symbolism, each of the characters and performances..... This was my first Bergman film of the last four years or so, so as I return to it after seeing four others, I realize that it doesn't exactly fit into the Bergman atmospheric mold. The content is similar, but is somehow less idiosyncratic: it is one of his first films after all.
I'm not sure what I could say about this film, especially in regards to its philosophical landscape. I had a great experience with it, totally engaging, and I harbored a fairly strong appreciation for it-- something that was missing just a few months ago. I can't tell which of the two is my favorite Bergman film: both are incredibly enjoyable.
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