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"That can not be." - Hey, I can understand disliking the film.

Posted by Audiophilander on August 14, 2007 at 23:12:51:
I think that it's a good flick bordering on greatness, but very dated, self-absorbed and tedious when looking beyond the symbolism of the chess match and clever cinematography which, BTW, occasionally suffers from poorly matched indoor/outdoor footage.
I bought the Criterion Seventh Seal to add to my DVD collection recalling the film as being very impressive when I saw it back in college with a group of students under the influence of Grey Poupon. Time has not been generous to my recollections of this film. The high quality Criterion transfer drew attention to Seventh Seal's stagier scenes, which were eminently forgettable and much campier than recollections of the film.
My wife, who I convinced (regrettably) to watch Seventh Seal, found that she disliked this movie on several levels, describing the film as boringly pretentious in spite of it's reputation. In retrospect, while I don't completely concur with her impressions, I find little room for disagreement with her overall observations.
So, while I don't "hate" this film by any means, taken on the whole I don't consider Bergman's career to be as brilliant or challenging as some here. He isn't as visionary or heroic a figure in the Director's Pantheon as auteurs the like of Dreyer, Lang, Murnau, Pabst, Von Stroheim, Von Sternberg, Welles, Wilder, and (aw yes, hee, hee) Peter Jackson.
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