Perceval le Gallois (1978)

Directed by

Éric Rohmer

Genre

drama film, medieval film, historical film

Country

Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy

Runtime

2h 20m

Rated

U

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 65 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Welshman wants to become a knight. He goes on a quest for the Holy Grail and meets various characters from Arthurian legend. The film adapts a medieval poem with a theatrical and deliberately artificial visual style.

whimsicalstylizedformaltheatricalmeditativeplayfulotherworldlynaive

What happens

Perceval le Gallois (transl. Perceval the Welshman) is a 1978 historical drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer, based on the 12th-century Arthurian romance Perceval, the Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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