Lancelot of the Lake Movie Review

Lancelot of the Lake was a smash hit at the Cannes Film Festival; I wonder why. It's such a bloody, boring picture with little to recommend it besides Pasqualino De Santis’ immaculate cinematography (unless you get some sort of a kick out of frozen acting styles and blood flowing out of helmets at a rapid clip). Robert Bresson's re-working of the Camelot mythology includes the search for the Holy Grail (hmmm…was 1975's funnier but equally bloody Monty Python and the Holy Grail a SATIRE of this movie?), Lancelot's romance with Guinivere, and the ill-fated joust that brought an end to the legendary Round Table. AKA: Lancelot du Lac; The Grail; Le Graal.

1974 85m/C FR Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Vladimir Antolek-Oresek, Humbert Balsan, Patrick Bernard, Arthur De Montalembert; D: Robert Bresson; W: Robert Bresson; C: Pasqualino De Santis; M: Philippe Sarde. VHS