Speed Cinema Screening: The Virgin Spring 9/16/18 3 pm

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, Bergman’s The Virgin Spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. With grim austerity, the director tells the story of the rape and murder of the virgin Karin, and her father Töre’s ruthless pursuit of vengeance, set in motion after the killers visit the family’s farmhouse. Starring Max von Sydow, the film is both beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity. 1960, Sweden, DCP, in Swedish with English subtitles, 89 minutes.  Recommended for 16+.

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