The Green Knight
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The In Kraut
I watched this last night and enjoyed it a lot, but don't expect some rousing Arthurian adventure flick with sword fights and jousting action. This is a contemplative, atmospheric, sometimes sinister film which you probably get more out of if you know a little about the Arthurian stories in general and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in particular. I knew some but brushed up via Wikipedia, and it helped. The film sticks to the basics of the story but also deviates in ways which reframe ideas about heroism and knightly virtues. Dev Patel is very good in the lead but he is supposed to be quite a passive character, a layabout whose mother here is implied to be Morgan le Fay, who lights a fire under his lazy ass by summoning the title character. King Arthur and Queen Guinivere (Sean Harris & Kate Dickie, nicely cast against type) are middle aged, tired and sickly looking, characters whose time has passed rather than the romantic take of previous adaptations.
David Lowry is becoming one of the most interesting US filmmakers, he started out with the Terrence Malick influenced Ain't Them Bodies Saints but has moved on from that, though there still is something ethereal about his films. A Ghost Story is one of my favourite films of the last decade and this has a similarly melancholy quality. The Green Knight is far from a Hollywood blockbuster, a slow, mysterious, often ambiguous film and its my favourite film of the year so far. It's an A24 production, who have specialised in art house horror films like Midsommar and The Witch and that what this often feels like.
David Lowry is becoming one of the most interesting US filmmakers, he started out with the Terrence Malick influenced Ain't Them Bodies Saints but has moved on from that, though there still is something ethereal about his films. A Ghost Story is one of my favourite films of the last decade and this has a similarly melancholy quality. The Green Knight is far from a Hollywood blockbuster, a slow, mysterious, often ambiguous film and its my favourite film of the year so far. It's an A24 production, who have specialised in art house horror films like Midsommar and The Witch and that what this often feels like.
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
In spoiler tags because I'm not that mean 
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
was trying to think of the last big Arthurian film I can remember being excited about, First Knight with Connery as Arthur
I'm sure this will be better than that.
I'm sure this will be better than that.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
For some reason Arthurian films always have to work quite a bit harder than those in other historical settings thanks to Python…
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Looks more like Excalibur than First Knight so I’m excited
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Reviews are absolutely raptorous, might have to venture into an actual cinema for this. Mrs Frank loves all the Arthurian stuff too, despite being one of them foreigners.
maomao
普費斯
Gavin.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
I'm in that movie. For about 100th of a microsecondI looked into earlier film versions of the legend and there is one from 1984 starring Sean Connery and Miles O'Keeffe (best known in the UK for becoming a recurring gag on the Graham Norton show). Behold the glory of his Krystle Carrington wig, WTF were they thinking ?
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Reno
The In Kraut
I hope you got to wear a wig !
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
I think I missed something. Some of it was great but lots of it wasn’t. It was also too dark in places. Like they were trying for Barry Lyndon but didn’t have the NASA lenses. The end was great though.
Also throughout I said it was a bit close to Month Phython and The Holy Grail in places. But then I read a review that said the director thought that film was one of the great retelling of the Arthur myth a d that was deliberate! This is true BTW.
Also throughout I said it was a bit close to Month Phython and The Holy Grail in places. But then I read a review that said the director thought that film was one of the great retelling of the Arthur myth a d that was deliberate! This is true BTW.
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Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Its quite Art House – sometimes annoyingly in a Peter Greenaway – who the fuck is that weird person and what are they doing in this scene? – way.
But very beautiful, engrossing for the most part. It actually sticks quite closely to the original material for the most part (hey – I read the wiki synopsis of the poem before hand) .
Wont be to everybody’s taste. Don’t think it’s the amazeballs piece of cinema that some of the reviews describe – but its original and interesting even if you don’t have much of a clue wtf is happening or why in some places.
But very beautiful, engrossing for the most part. It actually sticks quite closely to the original material for the most part (hey – I read the wiki synopsis of the poem before hand) .
Wont be to everybody’s taste. Don’t think it’s the amazeballs piece of cinema that some of the reviews describe – but its original and interesting even if you don’t have much of a clue wtf is happening or why in some places.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Thoroughly enjoyable as a film, but anyone expecting a rollicking adventure may be disappointed... Very visual, with refreshing lack of exposition 
Saw this at the weekend and liked it.
I also liked the 'past their best and starting to fall apartness' of Arthur and Guinevere. And the whole feel of decay I guess.
The cinema was really cold though and the darkness and unrelenting rain in the film meant I felt bloody freezing by the end....
I also liked the 'past their best and starting to fall apartness' of Arthur and Guinevere. And the whole feel of decay I guess.
The cinema was really cold though and the darkness and unrelenting rain in the film meant I felt bloody freezing by the end....
strung out
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Really enjoyed this, although I was slightly perturbed halfway through when I realised Finchy from The Office was voicing the Green Knight.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
I enjoyed this too, and would watch again as it seems to have several plot strands woven in. I wasn't too familiar with the source material but think that has a bit of old shaggy dog about it too. Refreshingly different to most every film I've seen in the last year, 8/10 first impression
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