{"id":16210,"date":"2024-02-17T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16210"},"modified":"2024-02-16T10:33:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:33:27","slug":"lancelot-of-the-lake-1974-robert-bresson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16210","title":{"rendered":"Lancelot of the Lake (1974, Robert Bresson)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many funny things about the opening violence montage, from the extremely Monty Python-reminiscent beheadings to how Bresson, who cares so very much about performance style, cares less about blood-spurt mechanics. Text crawl says the rest of the action takes place after fruitless years of searching for the holy grail. The king misses all his dead knights… his nephew Gawain is restless… everyone hates Mordred… and Lancelot is busy having an affair with the queen. At a jousting tournament L fights his own guys and everyone gets hurt – Bresson ignores the knights and films their horses. Lancelot is missing presumed dead after the tournament until he returns and kills Gawain and steals the queen (then returns her). Mordred has had enough and takes the castle, King and L fight together, everyone dies.<\/p>\n

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Short and swift with excellent color (on my copy, at least). I can’t find who was just saying it’s one of the all-time most annoying movies to overhear from another room (clank, clank). The only actor who’s been in other films is Lionel: Humbert Balsan, who got picked up by Rivette, Brisseau, Pialat, and Sam Fuller.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Rosenbaum<\/a>:<\/p>\n

According to Michel Est\u00e8ve, neither the tents nor the Round Table nor the chess game nor the wooden tub in which Gueni\u00e8vre bathes belongs to the period, all of them constituting conscious anachronisms on Bresson\u2019s part. This is a distinctly modern Lancelot<\/em>, in striking contrast to the relatively \u201cmedieval\u201d atmosphere of Bresson\u2019s last two films, both set in contemporary Paris, where the gentle creature in Une Femme Douce<\/a><\/em> often suggested a lonely maiden in a tower waiting to be rescued, and the dreamer in Four Nights of a Dreamer<\/a><\/em> resembled a wandering knight in search of a pure love that was equally hopeless. The sense of elongated durations and passing seasons that we associate with the romances of Chr\u00e9tien de Troyes is more evident in Balthazar<\/em>, or even in John Ford\u2019s The Searchers<\/em>, than in the tightly compressed episodes of Lancelot<\/em>, where action and event is all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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