The Seventh Seal by Lord Melvyn Bragg Groundswell Speaker 2024 accidentally turns into a duck

accidentally turns into a duck

at once both absurd and sincere

As their friendship grows

BloomsburyISBN: 9781408816790Extent: 320 pages

The Seventh Seal by Lord Melvyn Bragg Groundswell Speaker 2024 accidentally turns into a duckThe 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