THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: David Lowery
Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton,
Sarita Choudhury, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie,
Ralph Ineson, Barry Keoghan, Erin Kellyman
The young nephew of King Arthur takes up the challenge of a mysterious Green Knight, and embarks on a heroic quest involving bandits, a fox, some giants, Saint Winifred, a lord who's obsessed with hunting and the lord's seductive lady, all leading up to a second, climactic encounter with the Green Knight. The emotional payoff is limited, but the movie looks like a storybook come to life, and Lowery has a real instinct for how to tell an age-old tale cinematically. The script is literate, with moments of tongue-in-cheek humor - the potential for a Monty Python-style spoof is obvious - and the arboreal knight of the title bears an uncanny resemblance to Groot in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" movies.
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