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  • 1975
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 1975
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 28 m
Lancelot of the Lake

Summary From renowned French director Robert Bresson comes this spare and haunting version of the legend of Camelot. The story begins as the Knights of the Round Table return to Camelot after their futile search for the blessed Holy Grail. Lancelot (Luc Simon), the leader of the quest, is reunited with Queen Guinevere (Laura Duke Condominas), wh...

Directed By: Robert Bresson

  • 1975
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 1975
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 28 m

Lancelot of the Lake

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Summary From renowned French director Robert Bresson comes this spare and haunting version of the legend of Camelot. The story begins as the Knights of the Round Table return to Camelot after their futile search for the blessed Holy Grail. Lancelot (Luc Simon), the leader of the quest, is reunited with Queen Guinevere (Laura Duke Condominas), wh...

Directed By: Robert Bresson

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It's stunningly beautiful, mesmerising, exhausting, uplifting, amazing - all the things you could possibly expect from a masterpiece.
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Because Bresson’s cinematic personality is as deliberate and clean as it is, the viewer is tempted to chalk up the bizarre and moving experience of watching Lancelot du Lac to some latent spirituality or grace.
By Zach Campbell FULL REVIEW
80
Not surprisingly, Bresson's stripped-to-the-bone adaptation eschews the traditionally heroic, spectacular, fabulous, and exaltedly romantic aspects of the legendary saga in order to lay bare the confusion and pain within the human soul.
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Paying attention to religious impulses which are all but incomprehensible in the 20th Century, Bresson conjures up a God-bothered middle ages that is harrowing but not, it must be said, terribly exciting.
By Kim Newman FULL REVIEW
60
What's missing from the film is any urgent interior meaning, and this it may be because of the distractions of the exterior details. It may also be because the conflicts that rage within Lancelot — between duty and desire, courtly love and physical love — simply aren't complex enough to bring out the best in Mr. Bresson.
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Mara Films, Laser Productions, Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), Gerico Sound
Release Date Jun 9, 1975
Duration 1 h 28 m
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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