The Seventh Seal by Lord Melvyn Bragg Groundswell Speaker 2024 and references to self-harm

and references to self-harm

BloomsburyISBN: 9781526657282Extent: 304 pages

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The Seventh Seal by Lord Melvyn Bragg Groundswell Speaker 2024 and references to self-harmThe 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