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The Seventh Seal Reviews
It’s a masterpiece of filmmaking from a master of the profession, and remains an impactful viewing experience even if you can’t tell a knight from a rook.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 7, 2024
Like many of his greatest works, Bergman uses The Seventh Seal as an existentialist vehicle, exploring a landscape where God may have turned his back on humanity, leading to disillusionment, conflict and destruction.
| Jan 23, 2024
A formidable film in which Bergman, with symbols and metaphors, builds a philosophical treatise that points out the impossibility of man to defeat death. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 13, 2023
Arguably the most famous of Ingmar Bergman’s films and certainly his most iconic, 'The Seventh Seal' is Bergman at his most allegorical.
| Oct 6, 2023
the most iconic of Swedish master Ingmar Bergman’s canon of masterpieces, and it is also quite possibly one of the most powerful and memorable examples of late ’50s and early ’60s European art cinema
| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 19, 2023
As a youth, perhaps no other film opened my eyes to the wonderful possibilities of cinema as much as The Seventh Seal.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 27, 2023
Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal stands as one of the writer/director's greatest triumphs thanks to its exploration of intriguing themes that are woven into a tapestry of fascinating & compelling characters
| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2023
Mr. Bergman’s objective in The Seventh Seal has been to achieve with the camera the simplicity and directness of a medieval muralist in recounting an immemorial mystery drama which touches the great issues of human experience.
| Aug 17, 2022
The magnificent craftsmanship, of course, I admit. But beneath the surface of the high-class, bony morality which has understandably attracted so much admiration there lurks what to me is a dreadful squashy sentimentality.
| Aug 9, 2022
Obsessed with the ideas of love, life, death, good and evil, [Bergman] mediates as he goes, taking in symbols, in parables and images that are often of breathtaking beauty.
| Apr 20, 2022
The Seventh Seal possesses some of the world's most recognizable filmic imagery, beginning with the knight's fateful game of chess with Death, and continuing to the eerily joyful dance in the final frames.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022
... questions the silence of God and service unto Him... (life) choices are shown to be one's own without passing judgment... this is the personification all other cinematic reapers are measured against.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 22, 2022
The film proved revolutionary, telling a compelling story while seeking answers to life's biggest questions.
| Aug 11, 2021
The character that I enjoyed the most this time was the squire played by Gunnar Bjӧrnstrand. He is the most honest of all the characters but is also funny and bawdy.
| Mar 24, 2021
Although Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal is set in medieval Sweden, nothing could be more modern than its author's conception of death as the crucial reality of man's existence.
| Feb 3, 2021
"The plague advances, implacable, and confusion and despair begin to reign". [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 31, 2020
An especially grey movie; funny and miserable, optimistic and fatalistic.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 8, 2020
In a good example of my long-held belief that tonal inconsistency in a film isn't a drawback when well-justified, [the film] uses the B plot to flesh out ... the A plot
| Jul 1, 2020
I loved the black and white cinematography and the creative choices.
| Feb 28, 2019