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...MIA FARROW...
...Beijing the two TIME editors, bureau chief Jaime A. FlorCruz and reporter Mia Turner discussed the problem with Vice Premier Li Lanqing, who said China too prefers a nuclear-free Korean peninsula but has "limited" influence over Pyongyang. Li was more concerned about Clinton's human-rights campaign...
...Knight, Seeking to win a respite, challenges Death to a game of chess. The Knight and Jons travel the contryside, which is ravaged by the plague. Also roaming the land is a band of travelling players--Jof (Nils Poppe), a visionary who sees the Virgin Mary, Jof's wife Mia (Bibi Andersson) and their baby...
...robes, his angular, bony face impossibly white, stands with Maria Casares in Jean Cocteau's "Orpheus" and the peasant in Roberto Gavalodon's "Macario" as one of the greatest visualizations of death in cinema. At one point, Jof sees the Knight playing chess with Death, and he escapes with Mia and their son. The Knight travels to his castle with several of his companios, and it is there that Death finds them. As the film closes, Jof has a vision of Death leading the Knight and his companions in a dance across the horizon...
...plot synopsis in the notes for the retrospective concludes with the sentence, "Film ends as Jof, Mia and their child walk off towards a new day." That is as cliched a sentence as one can find, but the ending of "The Seventh Seal" is far from cliched. Just as the ending of "Smiles of a Summer Night" was in many rspects a false ending belied by the content of the film, the optimistic ending of "The Seventh Seal" is ironical. Mia and Jof walking into the sunrise cannot erase the previous images; Death will come for them...