The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman, 1957, Sweden, 96 mins, Certificate: NR

Celebrating the centenary of the birth of one of the most influential film directors, screenwriters and playwrights of all time, we are proud to screen one of the most acclaimed and iconic films in the  history of cinema, the epic historical fantasy, “The Seventh Seal”, which kick-started the worldwide ascension of the great Swede into an all-time cinematic deity. Influenced by medieval myths, tales and historic events, Bergman created perhaps the ultimate existential cinematic fable, where The Grim Reaper is a “real” character, challenged to a chess game of (literally) life and death by a once brave, now disillusioned, knight.  Simply unmissable! #Bergman100

Reviews:

★★★★★“Ingmar Bergman’s dark masterpiece effortlessly sees off the revisionists and the satirists; it is a radical work of art that reaches back to scripture, to Cervantes and to Shakespeare to create a new dramatic idiom of its own. (…) The Seventh Seal is an untarnished gold-standard of artistic and moral seriousness.” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

★★★★★ “Ingmar Bergman’s black and white masterpiece The Seventh Seal has matured like a great wine over 50 years. The brutal reality of life in the Middle Ages provides the unnerving backdrop to this quest to discover if God exists.” James Christopher, The Times UK

★★★★★ “Full of haunting, iconic images and a touch of hopeful humanity, The Seventh Seal is cinema at its most artful, a philosophical meditation on the meaning(lessness) of this mortal coil.” Jamie Russell, bbc.com