Se7en

Director: David Fincher

1995 / 127min / 35mm

Nearing-retirement veteran Detective Morgan Freeman and new transfer Brad Pitt track a serial killer with an advanced sense of stagecraft through a sickly, perpetually sodden city of peeling lead paint and lost souls in Fincher’s tour de force, easily one of the most stylistically influential films of the 1990s. “The look of Se7en … came out of this tight working ‘cell’ we created between David, myself, the production designer Arthur Max, and the costume designer Michael Kaplan. The four of us would meet together to discuss the art direction and visual scope of the movie, and we did several sessions like that to establish a unified plan… There was something [about Robert Frank’s photos in The Americans] that interested me, which was related to the grittiness of them, the blandness, the loneliness of a past era and the texture of death.” —Darius Khondji

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios/20th Century

Part of Radical Chiaroscuro: The Work of Darius Khondji