It was announced in November 2018 that David Lowery would direct and write a modern retelling of the 14th century tale Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with A24, Ley Line Entertainment, and Bron Studios set to finance.
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- 1 Daniel HartIn Stori Stif And Stronge 2:01
- 2 Daniel HartChrist Is Born Indeed 1:28
- 3 Daniel HartYou Do Smell Like You've Been At Mass All Night 2:33
- 4 Daniel HartTell Me A Tale Of Yourself, So That I Might Know Thee 2:50
- 5 Daniel HartShaped By Your Hands 2:01
- 6 Daniel HartO Greatest Of Kings 2:57
- 7 Daniel HartRemember It Is Only A Game 2:28
- 8 Daniel HartOne Year Hence 3:01
- 9 Daniel HartI Promise You Will Not Come To Harm 3:14
- 10 Daniel HartChild Thou Ert A Pilgrim 2:17
- 11 Daniel HartRest Them Bones My Brave Little Knight 3:33
- 12 Daniel HartA Meeting With St. Winifred 1:08
- 13 Daniel HartYour Head Is On Your Neck, My Lady 1:59
- 14 Daniel HartAre You Real, Or Are You A Spirit? 1:19
- 15 Daniel HartI Will Strike Thee Down With Every Care That I Have For Thee 1:33
- 16 Daniel HartAiganz O Kulzphazur (feat. Emma Tring) 2:30
- 17 Daniel HartThe Giant's Call 2:58
- 18 Daniel HartBrave Sir Gawain Come To Face The Green Knight 1:58
- 19 Daniel HartShould Not A Knight Offer A Lady A Kiss In Thanks? 1:03
- 20 Daniel HartHold Very Still 2:30
- 21 Daniel HartDo You Believe In Witchcraft? 3:07
- 22 Daniel HartYou Are No Knight 1:23
- 23 Daniel HartI Never Asked For Your Help Anyway 2:47
- 24 Daniel HartGawain Runs And Runs (feat. Katinka Vindelev & Bobak Lotfipour) 1:41
- 25 Daniel HartBlome Swete Lilie Flour 3:08
- 26 Daniel HartExcalibur 1:55
- 27 Daniel HartO Nyghtegale (feat. Atheena Frizzell) 5:23
- 28 Daniel HartNow I'm Ready, I'm Ready Now 4:02
- 29 Daniel HartBe Merry, Swete Lorde (feat. Katinka Vindelev) 1:30
The Green Knight
(2020)34
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Runtime | 2 hr 10 min |
Budget | $15 000 000 |
Premiere: World | $18 887 953 July 29, 2021 |
USA | $17 173 321 |
Other countries | $1 714 632 |
Box Office – Budget | $3 887 953 |
Premiere: USA | $17 173 321 July 30, 2021 |
first day | $2 879 578 |
first weekend | $6 790 917 |
theaters | 2798 |
rollout | 155 days |
Digital: World | September 28, 2021 |
Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, Violence & Gore, Sex & Nudity, ... |
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Also Known As | ÞE GRENE KNYȝT (United States) Le chevalier vert (Canada) |
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Critique: 64
It might have been too much, too heavy, were it not for Patel. He is sympathetic in every frame… here he has graduated to something more commanding...
The Arthurian myths remain because we come to them, not because we reshape them, and they are open to all. In this realization, The Green Knight is...
In a summer of junk, cinema visionary David Lowery delivers a modern movie masterpiece about a wannabe knight (an Oscar worthy Dev Patel) who...
A movie that’s both of its time and splendidly out of step with it, an act of necromancy in a CGI world.
Lowery dives all the way in and viewers are rewarded with a sumptuous feast for the eyes and the soul.
Lowery’s elusive adaptation withholds its meaning up to and beyond that final image of a mossy stump. It’s left to the viewer to p...
It’s the movie Lowery was born to make, a dreamy piece of high fantasy that bombards the viewer with visual delights, skimps on all but the m...
Several heads roll though it’s your mind that’ll get truly blown by «The Green Knight," a visually dazzling and thoughtful trip ba...
The Green Knight’s attempts to blend a young man’s personal reckonings and psychic confrontations with Lowery’s go-for-broke...
Rather than tease a particular reading out of Gawain’s journey, the beguiling work functions as a meditation on the search for mean...
A rivetingly weird and exceptionally beautiful fantasy film that offers no easy answers but ponders the biggest questions – through myths, mys...
A methodical, if largely allegorical, exploration of its main character’s psyche, the film smooths out the enduring mysteries, opaque psychol...
«The Green Knight» wields a peculiar magic, the reason being that Lowery-as he showed in «A Ghost Story," which ranged with ease over centurie...
While you couldn’t call The Green Knight a «faithful» adaptation of the poem, it might be a more faithful adaptation of the bigger legen...
It’s a pity that the preceding two hours don’t always fit, either thematically or qualitatively, with this dramatic, meaningful de...
A spectacle of contradictions: as grandiose as the canon of tales to which it belongs but also oddly intimate in focus, with a modern psycholo...
Occupying practically every scene, Patel makes a striking and relatable hero, spending much of the time as confused as the audience is apt to be.
Pacing, velocity, and flow don’t interest Lowery. He knows the effects he wants and, skilled as he is, knows how to get them. But are they wo...
The Green Knight has its share of flaws but there’s a freshness to Lowery’s approach that demands to be noticed.
David Lowery’s riff on Arthurian legend is full of profound truth and awe-inspiring spectacle, but its grayscale world is as opaque as it is...
Lowery has taken a young man’s journey of self-discovery and fashioned it into a gorgeous and moving work of art.
Lowery’s unforgettable adaptation refuses to do the math for us, but it’s all the more thrilling for how it insists that the only true...
Those looking for a film that does full justice to the original tale may be disappointed by The Green Knight’s lapse into a familiar story of...
Those expecting an Arthurian sword-and-sandals battle epic will be sorely disappointed. Instead, Lowery has delivered a dense, sensual, almost...
Lowery’s latest impresses and wows with a tactile, beguiling dark fantasy epic that cuts right to the Pagan heart of Arthurian legend.
At its center is a performance from Patel that walks the knife’s edge between folly and vigor, between wisdom and lamentation, and betwe...
I got caught up in it (to a point). I was, in the end, moved by it. I was also, at moments, slightly baffled by it. But I saw how it...
In «The Green Knight," Lowery revises a legend, in style and in substance, in order to evoke a way of telling different stories, and of t...
It’s an elusive film, in its plotting and allusions, but is still potent and immediate, as resonant as any of our own late-night quests towar...
Lowery’s The Green Knight is cinema’s best Arthurian adaptation, which may matter only to literary scholars. Everyone else will have to...
Looking at it is like being immersed in a medieval tapestry. Watching it is like being immersed in a Jungian dream filled with choices, enigma...
Over-calculated as it is, The Green Knight does have its authentically dreamlike passages. Near the heart of everything is the hero’s ambival...
Suffice it to say that this tale, romantic and symbolic in equal measure, ends exactly and breathtakingly as it must.
A beautiful, haunting and enigmatic work that reckons with the folklore’s grave and tragic elements to deliver a masterpiece of blood, s...
The exceptional level of craftsmanship – which includes some seamless, low-key special effects – wouldn’t be nearly as affecting wi...
To disguise a film so artful and boldly uncommercial as mass-market entertainment for those still hurting from Game of Thrones' conclusion&nbs...
By the time Gawain reaches his journey’s end, in as moving and majestically sustained a passage of pure cinema as I’ve seen this y...
A visual stunner from start to finish, but The Green Knight does slip into frustratingly enigmatic territory before rebounding strong and sticking...
The Green Knight has bottled that feeling of ancient foreboding – it’s Arthurian legend at its most rich and enigmatic.
Led by Dev Patel at his most magnetic, this is a fantastical adventure in a genre all of its own.
The movie’s more ruminative than exuberant. It’s also fully invested in making its own kind of magic, on its own time.
Sculptural minimalism defines the medieval stonework, clanking armour takes on the sleek, supple forms of fetishwear, light piercing the frame from...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is sometimes waggishly described as Ingmar Bergman with more laughs. By the same token, The Green Knight is a...
Told in sumptuously gritty imagery, this epic feat of bold imagination is unconcerned with mitigating its creative force for the sake of unadventur...
The chapters don’t cohere in a sustained rhythm, but in richly evocative imagery, «The Green Knight» makes its own vivid film language a...
In lieu of hero-buildling and stylized violence, David Lowery’s take on Arthurian legend invites you to soak in its vibes and chew the scenery.
[A] mesmerizing journey guided by Lowery’s incredibly poetic eye, career-best work from Dev Patel, and an artistic sensibility that transport...
This is a slow-moving movie (125-minutes) that will make you think, during and after. By the end I was comparing it with the work of Dani...
While there’s a lot of commendable chutzpah and curious longing baked into The Green Knight, the movie’s never as compelling as it...
It’s a film that will enthral and fascinate audiences who won’t be able to push it – and certain images – out of their h...
If you see the movie passing, salute it - a fearless if possibly foolhardy genre of one.
Knight is ultimately a tale of honor though, and a deeply moral one – inscrutable, but haunting too.
The film seizes Lowery’s best skills as a director: his eye for innocence and nature and how he uses slowness to deepen a story.
David Lowery’s movie, starring Dev Patel, cleverly unfolds the public consequences of private indiscretions.
The Green Knight – an epic in miniature, a fantasy all the more poignant for its moral realities – makes this a lesson worth learning.
Fittingly for a story that is often opaque, the action plays out in muddy light or at arm’s length: this is a movie to be squinted...
An unabashedly complex art film that is never watered down or affected by the fear of of box office failure. Simply stunning.
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For those who are not familiar with the medieval legend about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I recommend that you definitely read it. Vasnetsov’s picture, good staging, a strong legend at the core, philosophical themes, but… But there was not enough depth. Translated to English

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It must be understood that this is a medieval knightly epic written in the 14th century, with all the ensuing consequences in the form of a plot, morality, etc. In our time, a little peculiar of course, but it turned out soundly. Translated to English

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The film’s positives are the art style, the cinematography, and the scenery. The movie has no other good points. Experiments continue in Hollywood about mixing races in films. Indian knights run around in medieval England. Translated to English

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A film of growing up that reflects on the essence of honor and heroism, no matter how pathetic it may sound. The image of the knight is partially deconstructed, but the essence of the poem remains the same. Visually, everything is fine. Translated to English

A modernist fantasy road movie based on the legends of the Round Table, filmed in the style of a comic book film – pretentious and poseur. Which is good, stylish, and adds fatness to the dietary rhythm and leisurely mediational storytelling. Translated to English

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The form is excellent, the content is not enough for such timing. I waited a few months before judging to see how the aftertaste of this fantasy parable would hold up. Alas, some successful visual solutions fade, and the essence remains sparse. Translated to English

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Unusual in form fantasy, more like a literal transcription of the legend on the movie screen in the form of a medieval fresco. The film is divided into chapters, different in rhythm. This uneven «odyssey» format makes the film more ponderous than the story would require. Translated to English

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Through music, visual techniques and camera work, the film creates a magical atmosphere that absorbs you and even scares you in moments. These stories are truly worth watching. Translated to English

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Nice picture, interesting story. Atmospheric. I love this. After the film, I additionally looked at Shulman’s commentary. Translated to English

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The film is not as loyal to the random viewer. Without reading the poem, the viewer will regularly have an association with Ivanushka the Fool. The actions of the hero are as chaotic as possible, as well as what is happening on the screen. To justify this failure by the fact that this author’s cinema will no longer fail! Translated to English

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Incredibly immersive experience. It sounds a bit vulgar, but the atmosphere in this film is simply outrageous – slow, drawn-out shots never seem boring, but seem to immerse yourself in yourself. A mixture of folklore and mysticism under the a cappella soundtrack makes it goosebumps! Translated to English

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I couldn’t take it seriously. What is so interesting about this simple legend that it needs to be turned into a 2-hour beautiful film? Colorful, yes, but what’s next? I, apparently, am not a fan of such legends, everything seemed deliberately long and just a dull retelling of an ancient fable. Translated to English

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The legend is a priori a metaphorical genre. But in the film, this metaphor is cubed. The same bag without a bottom. Umberto Eco would appreciate it. In this case, it is rather a minus. You have to wade through the heap of meanings. It is as if you are tearing off cabbage leaves one by one, and at the end a stalk is waiting. Translated to English

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put a class if you also eat mushrooms and talk with giants and animals Translated to English

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Perfect in its individual elements, but stubbornly not going into something whole-masterpiece film. Perhaps there is too little plot and too much contemplation. Translated to English

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Lowry’s mesmerizing audiovisual masterpiece that oozes top-notch existential philosophy. For a budget of 15 lyam, everything looks gorgeous. Patel looked organic for this hero. Legendary movie, in short. 2 hours of medieval fantasy trance. 9.5/10 Translated to English

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Still, it is difficult to comprehend the legend of the XIV century. Without historical reference, it is difficult to understand what was going on in the head of the inventor. It seems that Green is a metaphor for nature, but it seems not; like the Fox is Gawain himself, but it seems not. Perearthausili. Translated to English

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The soundtrack, atmosphere and nature are magical. The rhythm of the story and the dark palette are mesmerizing. There is a scene after the credits (!) Translated to English

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A peculiar and unusual story, composed of legends and tales. The movie is not for everyone. Dev Patel will be remembered for a long time in this role. Translated to English

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This film can be described in one phrase – heroes are not born, they are made! Translated to English

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A dull rethinking of an Arthurian legend. The morally obsolete story about fidelity to knightly rules, thanks to its incredible boredom, leaves a lot of food for thought about how much useful things could be done in 2 hours. Thank you, Sasha, but do not advise more films! Translated to English

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A juicy picture is available here, of course, but the author’s plotless cinema is not able to live without interesting characters. There are none here, so there is nothing to talk about. Translated to English

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What a dumb-horned snob you have to be to find fault with inauthentic clothes and crowns with a halo, so what if the English knight is Hindu, Lord … A screen version of a primitive ancient legend about gaining knightly virtues presented in a very beautiful wrapper, the picture is even wallpaper glue. Translated to English

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Finally arrived and looked. Terribly beautiful atmospheric and symbolic philosophical tale. It’s amazing how you can change the original quite a lot and end up with a similar result. Translated to English

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A great way to show a fairy tale +18. Great story, but the downside is that it’s too long. Well, they would give a more dynamic film, no one could take their eyes off. And then they even turn their heads for a minute. I would say this is a dirty fairy tale «Well, now, off with your head» Translated to English