Director: David Lowery. Cast: Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris. 130 min. Fantasy.
- Based on the 1869 Arthurian novel "Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight" - unread by me so unable to comment on liberties taken by writer/director Lowery in telling the story; but apparently there are some.
- By the director of the beautiful A Ghost Story (one of my favorite movies of 2017), projecting the same themes of that current day movie (the loneliness of death, the possibility of parallel narratives) to hundreds of years ago - but a few times deeper and somewhat difficult to understand. I occasionally found myself lost among the multitude of (pleasant) surprises: what to believe, which part was a dream, and which part was actually happening.
- The Green Knight himself is a memorable presence. You will be thinking about him after the movie.
- Political correctness aside, not too sure about Dev Patel as Sir Gawain. And after Ex Machina, I've never quite connected with Vikander in any of her roles (Tomb Raider being the worst).
MoGo's rating: 7/10
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