Speed Cinema Screening: The Seventh Seal 9/09/18 3 pm

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

Returning exhausted from the Crusades to find medieval Sweden gripped by the Plague, a knight (Max von Sydow) suddenly finds himself face-to-face with the hooded figure of Death and challenges him to a game of chess. As the fateful game progresses, and the knight and his squire encounter a gallery of outcasts from a society in despair, Bergman mounts a profound inquiry into the nature of faith and the torment of mortality. One of the most influential films of its time, The Seventh Seal is a stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning and is a work of stark visual poetry. 1957, Sweden, 35mm, in Swedish with English subtitles, 96 minutes. Recommended for 12+.

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