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Title: Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
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Luc Simon | ... | Lancelot du Lac |
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Laura Duke Condominas | ... | La Reine (The Queen) |
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Humbert Balsan | ... | Gauvain |
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Vladimir Antolek-Oresek | ... | Le Roi (The King) |
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Patrick Bernhard | ... | Mordred (as Patrick Bernard) |
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Arthur De Montalembert | ... | Lionel |
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Charles Balsan | ||
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Christian Schlumberger | ||
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Jean-Paul Leperlier | ||
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Marie-Louise Buffet | ||
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Marie-Gabrielle Cartron | ||
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Antoine Rabaud | ||
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Jean-Marie Becar | ||
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Guy de Bernis | ||
A million miles away from 'Camelot' or 'Excalibur', this film ruthlessly strips the Arthurian legend down to its barest essentials. Arthur's knights, far from being heroic, are conniving and greedy men who, just before the film starts, have failed miserably to find the Holy Grail. Aimlessly resentful at first, the developing relationship between Lancelot and Queen Guinevere focuses their rage, leading to inevitable tragedy... Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
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According to George A. Romero, Bresson has made only zombie films, and this one indeed suggests this conclusion. Inspired by Cocteau's Les chevaliers de la table ronde, the director created an absolutely unspectacular, scanty, masterful historical scenery which ultimately destroys all romantic imaginations of knighthood. Lancelot and his colleagues strut around stoically, preferably full-armoured, with a lowered visor and even when the helmet's off, there's not one emotion to read on the knights' faces which blink towards a world that is doomed to failure, a world that has lost its pivot because of guilt, doubts, a growing consciousness which calls itself into question. There's only one long shot in the entire film which stimulates the viewer in thinking beyond the pictures into a spiritual dimension which always has been Bresson's intention and theme. Lancelot is an impressively consequent, utterly economically told film that raises the big questions of life, love, faith, loyalty, honour and treason.