I saw it a few days ago, and though we entered the cinema late and missed the most iconic scene at the start, I was immediately absorbed by the film. Just a knight and his squire riding through the countryside, but the lighting and all is brilliant and keeps your eyes fixed to the screen.
The film is about Death - a returning crusader meets him on the road, and invites him to a game of chess to delay his own demise. So the knight and squire travel on, through a plague-ridden landscape, heading home for a little while...
The film is philosophical, sometimes scary, always beautiful, always quotable and surprisingly funny in places.
Ingmar Bergman, the director, has just died.
Now go and watch it already.