★★★★★
'By some curious alchemy, [The Seventh Seal] seemed not only to speak to my condition with a precision that was almost hallucinatory, it said what I would have said could I have articulated and organised it by myself.' 1/2
'By some curious alchemy, [The Seventh Seal] seemed not only to speak to my condition with a precision that was almost hallucinatory, it said what I would have said could I have articulated and organised it by myself.' 1/2
'Generally the screen was for entertainment: for the real stuff of thought you opened a book. Bergman upended all that in the one film.'
'Bergman has a deep seriousness about intense emotional relationships which I find sympathetic and with which I find it easy to identify.'
'We must take him at his word and see The Seventh Seal from the outset as Bergman's attempt to keep... the link between creation and worship and the link between the mid-twentieth century, the Middle Ages, the New Testament and much deeper into the past.'