Arts: Movies: Critical retrospective on Bergman's The Seventh Seal'

Critics' Picks: 'The Seventh Seal' - Video Library - The New York Times

Recommended!

Yes, it's dark.   And, yes, its view of Christian religion in a Humanist-Secularist societal environment dominated by Sweden's Lutheran Church under state-political forces (it was then the country's established church) is one of despair and disgust.  But it's a strong viewing experience if you can tolerate the English subtitles and a pervasively bleak vision.   The film is set in Sweden's middle ages.

-- Archibald