David Lowery directs Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander and Joel Edgerton in this fantasy adventure where feckless Gawain sets out on a doomed quest.

Lowery’s vision here is pretty stunning. Alien gargantuans roam the valley mists. Deaths are foretold in flash-forward detail. Every supernatural encounter seemingly has an erotic import bubbling away at the surface gallantry. I bet it smells as musty as a carrier bag full of conkers at the bottom of a kid’s wardrobe in December. Yet for all its beauty and horror The Green Knight feels kinda separate from the viewer, more like an intellectual exercise. The adventure and drama disappointed me slightly… but I would be keen to give it a second chance. On the big screen?

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Perfect Double Bill: Excalibur (1981)

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