Campion’s narrative sets the picnic episode on a mild sunny day in late summer. The locale is flat plains and brown grass. In the distance, high mountains loom. Beyond which high mountains loom. George Burbank is like the landscape he inhabits, solid and...
Bergman’s picnics in The Seventh Seal [Det Sjunde Inseglet], are moments of relief in an otherwise deadly serious drama about death and the meaning of God. When Block interrupts his game of chess with Death, he joins Jof (Nils Poppe) and Mia (Bibi Andersson)...
