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MEDIEVAL SWEDISH ANGST

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Ingmar Bergman's

Det Sjunde inseglet / The Seventh Seal (1957)

This film has been satirized and mocked so many times that it is difficult to see it freshly.

Somehow I keep seeing Woody Allen playing chess with death.

It is pretty stark. Full of christian (I think) theosophical questions.

I found myself nodding off occasionally.

Max Von Sydow is good but not that good. It is interesting to see the Bergman rep company emerging in this early film.

It was OK.

Not great.

Ebert says it is out of fashion.

No kidding.

All the way from the end of the crusades to 2007.

Quite a leap.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix 5 just out of respect to the master. Otherwise a 2.

Labels: best films