The Seventh Seal

What a delightful film this was. I was worried this would be just too thinky too talkie, too introspective. It wasn't, it was, but it wasn't.

This is that old Swedish classic were night plays chess with with Death. Eventually returning from the Crusades, and on his journey home. He collects an interesting entourage of miscellaneous people. These include a troupe of actors, a blacksmith and his errant wife, and the peasant girl. On the journey being count the plague victims, and guards on a witch hunt. There is also true prove develop will punishing themselves before God punishes them with the plague. All these subplot, and the vaguely reminiscent of Monty Python and the holy Grail. One suspects the seventh seal was a great inspiration to the famous six.

I was surprised how much the film reminded me of any film by Kurosawa. This was not only the pacing, the honor and nobility of the lead characters, the rascalliness of the lower classes, but also in the lighting and framing.

Again one to watch, but one to watch when you have a few hours spare and you feel like something slow-paced.