The Seventh Seal is probably Bergman's best-known work and the film
that most clearly bears the director's unmistakeable signature. The
opening scene sets the tone: a stony beach under a leaden sky, the
knight alone with his thoughts, then the approach of black-clad
Death, whom the knight invites to play a game of chess. Bergman's
medieval allegory of faith and doubt is dark with the horrors of
witch-burnings and the plague. But it is also shot through with
bright flashes of peace and joy, symbolised in the milk and wild
strawberries offered to the knight by an innocent family of actors.
In his compelling appreciation, Melvyn Bragg describes his own
first encounter as a student with this extraordinary film, and how
it revealed to him another cinema, quite different from the
Hollywood he had grown up with. He recounts too his later meeting
with Bergman himself, and how the marks of the director's powerful
personality are everywhere in this troubling and inspiring
masterpiece.
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