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A24’s The Green Knight is awash in stunning imagery. From naked giants wandering across foggy English plains to skulls buried at the bottom of scarlet ponds, writer-director David Lowery’s ...
Nothing about The Green Knight, the new film from director David Lowery, is comfortable. From its opening scene, where Gawain (Dev Patel) sits in an empty throne room, a crown menacingly hovering ...
David Lowery’s film The Green Knight, an adaptation of the late 14th century chivalric romance Gawain and the Green Knight, reaches past the original poem to an older work, the Old English ...
Gawain (Dev Patel) agrees to take part in a challenge with a mysterious green knight. He must strike the entity in exchange for his green axe, although in a year’s time he must seek him out to ...
The Green Knight follows Gawain (Dev Patel) when he agrees to take part in a challenge against the mysterious Green Knight. Gawain must strike the stranger in return for a green axe but he must ...
And then there are those that are dull, incomprehensible and award-winningly boring. The Green Knight is one such walking disaster. If you have never endured bad movies in your lifetime, it would ...
The Green Knight doesn’t feel modern, per se, but it has its own sense of vitality and immediacy. Lowery replicates whichever parts of the original verse suit his needs, while refiguring ...
When a mysterious Green Knight (Ralph Ineson) arrives with a challenge, Gawain embarks on an epic quest to prove his honour. The first time we meet Gawain (Dev Patel) in The Green Knight ...
So it is with the 14th century epic poem ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, which tells of Arthur’s nephew, Gawain, and his quest to find greatness and honour. When the Green Knight appears ...
The first time we meet Dev Patel‘s Gawain in The Green Knight, he’s just trying to get laid. His lower class lover Essel (Alicia Vikander, in the first of dual roles), teases him, leading him ...