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    Bafflement in the battlements

    Nov 07, 2021 2 minutes
    by RUSSELL BAILLIE

    THE GREEN KNIGHT

    directed by David Lowery

    ased on this and his past features, it seems American film-maker David Lowery is on a quest to make movies that confound expectations in any and every genre. In recent years, he has done that with the equally terrific New Zealand-made kids’ flick , supernatural tale and Robert Redford bank-robber film . This time, he takes on Arthurian legend with a film based on , an epic poem penned by an unknown 14th-century Chaucer-adjacent writer and since revived by, among others, JRR Tolkien. And although there are elements that drag this from Camelot towards Middle-earth, Lowery’s film is a weirdly original and boldly imaginative take on medieval fantasy that can, at times, feel like a jousting match between Ingmar Bergman and , but, well, sexier.

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