Lancelot du Lac

1974 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Fantasy / Romance

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 96% · 25 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 71% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 4771 4.8K

holy grail camelot sword fight knight king arthur medieval

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Plot summary

Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, their number reduced to a mere handful. Seeing a rift developing between Lancelot and Mordred, Arthur urges his knights to bury their differences and become friends. However, the king is unaware that Lancelot is having an affair with his queen, Guinevere. Lancelot is torn between his duty to his king and his love for the queen, whilst Mordred is determined to use his infidelity to destroy him.

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French 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by eric b 5 / 10

Robert Bresson's low-budget attempt to de-romanticize the King

Robert Bresson's low-budget attempt to de-romanticize the King Arthur myth has no romance, no gallantry, no smiles, almost no score and just a smidge of what might be called "acting." Instead, the film is mostly about Bresson's strange obsession with incidental sound. Lasting impressions of this film are not about dialogue or plot, but rather rattling armor and listless, unnaturally loud footsteps trudging across forest duff and castle floors. Not exactly compelling. Violence usually occurs off-camera, though the bloody opening minutes can't help but evoke Monty Python & the Holy Grail's notorious "only a flesh wound" scene. The homely, untrained cast is just another way to rob the viewer of any easy pleasures. The story itself skips all the glories of Arthur's court and picks up after the failed search for the Grail, so the mood is nothing but bleak. Approach at your own risk, and don't bother bringing a shrubbery.
Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

I don't know how well Bresson's style worked

I don't know how well Bresson's style worked with the material, but I do know that it had beautiful photography and period sets.
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

Puzzling (in a good way). Bresson's style is

Puzzling (in a good way). Bresson's style is, as usual, almost immediately off-putting. The viewer struggles to figure out his directorial choices (often coming up empty-handed). Why on Earth would you show the famous jousting tournament (where Lancelot arrives in disguise) with the camera aimed only at the horses' midsections (that is, missing the jousting action entirely)? Non-professional actors speak their lines expressionlessly and the King Arthur legend as we know it has been shorn of most of its action. Instead, Bresson focuses in on Lancelot's predicament - his adultery with Guinivere conflicts with his loyalty to Arthur and his vow to God to end it. The persistence of this illicit affair brings the couple into conflict with Mordred and other knights but Bresson asks us to infer any deeper psychology ourselves from the surfaces he depicts. Yet the film is not boring. The medieval setting is wrought simply but effectively and the soundtrack is a wonder (with offscreen horses neighing and suits of armor clanking at what must be carefully timed moments). Whether Lancelot achieves salvation through suffering (a perennial theme for Bresson) is another mystery that the viewer can ponder. Figuring things out (or failing to do so) is half the fun.
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