roots of 'holy grail'
released a year prior to "monty python's holy grail", was robert bresson's take on the arthurian romance "lancelot du lac." i saw this film for the first time only recently. it opens immediately to a scene of arthurian bloody gore much like the opening scenes from "monty python's holy grail." i started laughing, thinking this was a comedy, because i had seen the python movie many times before. well it isn't quite comedy, but a really beautiful retelling of the arthur, lancelot, and guinivere love triangle with amature actors reciting sparse dialogue in a minimalist setting. brillant.
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