IMDb plot summary: A fantasy retelling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Directed by David Lowery. Starring Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, and Joel Edgerton.
The Green Knight is a retelling of the medieval story of Gawain and the Green Knight. Dev Patel plays Gawain, who challenges the Green Knight on Christmas Day and chops off his head, only for the Knight to stand back up, pick up his head, and announce that one year later he will deliver the exact same blow to Gawain. Most of the film follows Gawain on his year-later quest to find the Knight and see if he will survive the encounter. Honestly I put off watching this one for a long time because I didn't have high hopes, but I found more to like about it than I expected. There's an interesting episodic nature to it as Gawain goes through his various challenges, and the visuals really are gorgeous, but the story doesn't work as well for me. I am also unsure how I feel about the ending, which feels ambiguous in an irritating way to me rather than a fun one, but I suspect sitting with it longer might help it gel. It overall does feel like one I'll appreciate more *having* seen it than *while* seeing it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Green Knight > Being the Ricardos
The Green Knight < Elf
The Green Knight < The Pianist
The Green Knight > Children of Paradise
The Green Knight > Death to Smoochy
The Green Knight > A Star Is Born (1954)
The Green Knight < Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1997)
The Green Knight > Incendies
The Green Knight < Die Hard
The Green Knight > The Salesman
The Green Knight < The Night Before
The Green Knight > Band of Brothers
Final spot: #1556 out of 4037, or 61%.
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