One the the best movies ever made.
This movie is really great, i dont know why some people say tha is not good enoght, i just like to say tha this movie is like the seventh seal of the soviet union.
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I don't quite understand that comparison, not at all...
Nevertheless, this film is great. There are moments when we can see where Tarkovsky would go stylisticly but for the most part this film has its own style. We can see here that he is already a master, in command of the mood of the film, the look, and the actors. From here he would go on to make the very ambitious "Andrei Rublev", in which he began to define the style that he would mark the rest of his career.
I've just watched it, so I'll need to let it sink in a little, but I do think it is one of the great films I have seen.
Thanks for your comment, about the comparison, its because i think that The Seventh Seal is one of the best movies of Swedish, so is the same with Ivanovo Detstvo in the Soviet Union.
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The Seventh Seal is a very good film, and while it is true that Bergman is pretty much the first and last word on Swedish film, I wouldn't say the same for Tarkovsky and Russia. Russia has one of the richest silent film traditions of any country, and it has produced several major directors who made masterpieces in the sound era, such as Eisenstein, Bondarchuk, Bodrov, and Tarkovsky.
Tarkovsky never made a weak film. I own all of his feature films, and each one is unique and powerful.
Bergman made many classic films, he was prolific as a write and director, and I've seen probably 10 or 15 of his movies. My personal favorite Bergman films include
Fanny and Alexander, Scenes from a Marriage, Though a glass Darkly, Winter Light, and the Seventh Seal.
There are many that I have not seen yet like "Smiles of a Summer Night" and "The Virgin Spring", both of which are available from Criterion.
"The Seventh Seal is a very good film, and while it is true that Bergman is pretty much the first and last word on Swedish film, I wouldn't say the same for Tarkovsky and Russia. Russia has one of the richest silent film traditions of any country, and it has produced several major directors who made masterpieces in the sound era, such as Eisenstein, Bondarchuk, Bodrov, and Tarkovsky."
Sweden had great directors too during the silent era : Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller. But you're right, the great Swedish director is Bergman.
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