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    The Green Knight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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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

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    " When honor was everything. When courage made kings."
    Country
    Spoken Language
    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, ...
    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      average

    • Violence & Gore

      average

    • Sex & Nudity

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

    Production Companies A24BRON StudiosCreative Wealth Media Finance...Wild Atlantic PicturesSailor BearLey Line Entertainment
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    Description

    A fantasy retelling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

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    The Book Behind "The Green Knight" Film

    About the Book

    The film "The Green Knight" is based on the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a classic work of Arthurian literature. This poem is a chivalric romance that tells the story of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, who accepts a challenge from the mysterious Green Knight.

    The Author

    The poem is attributed to an anonymous author known as The Gawain Poet, sometimes referred to as the Pearl Poet. This author is believed to have been active during the late 14th century in the West Midlands of England. The Gawain Poet is also credited with other works, including Pearl, Patience, and Cleanness.

    Correspondence to the Film

    The film adaptation by David Lowery takes creative liberties while staying true to the core themes of the original poem. The film explores the themes of honor, bravery, and the human struggle with morality, much like the poem. However, it also introduces new elements and interpretations to make the story accessible and engaging for a modern audience.

    Key Themes in the Book

      • Chivalry and Honor: The poem delves into the chivalric code and the moral dilemmas faced by knights.

      • Temptation and Testing: Sir Gawain's journey is filled with tests of character and virtue.

      • Nature and the Supernatural: The Green Knight himself is a symbol of the mysterious and otherworldly forces at play.

    Production

    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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    Critique: 64

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    Little White Lies September 24, 2021

    A visual feast that lingers long after the end credits.

    Slant Magazine July 28, 2021

    A methodical, if largely allegorical, exploration of its main character’s psyche, the film smooths out the enduring mysteries, opaque psychol...

    Chicago Tribune July 26, 2021

    The movie’s more ruminative than exuberant. It’s also fully invested in making its own kind of magic, on its own time.

    Financial Times September 22, 2021

    If you see the movie passing, salute it - a fearless if possibly foolhardy genre of one.

    indieWire July 26, 2021

    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...

    New Statesman September 29, 2021

    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...

    Daily Telegraph September 22, 2021

    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...

    Vulture July 27, 2021

    Rather than tease a particular reading out of Gawain’s journey, the beguiling work functions as a meditation on the search for mean...

    Pajiba December 7, 2021

    At its center is a performance from Patel that walks the knife’s edge between folly and vigor, between wisdom and lamentation, and betwe...

    ReelViews August 1, 2021

    The Green Knight has its share of flaws but there’s a freshness to Lowery’s approach that demands to be noticed.

    News.com.au November 2, 2021

    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...

    ABC News August 6, 2021

    In a summer of junk, cinema visionary David Lowery delivers a modern movie masterpiece about a wannabe knight (an Oscar worthy Dev Patel) who...

    Chicago Reader August 4, 2021

    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...

    A visual stunner from start to finish, but The Green Knight does slip into frustratingly enigmatic territory before rebounding strong and sticking...

    RogerEbert.com July 26, 2021

    [A] mesmerizing journey guided by Lowery’s incredibly poetic eye, career-best work from Dev Patel, and an artistic sensibility that transport...

    New York Post July 30, 2021

    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.

    iNews.co.uk December 7, 2021

    Ambitious, strange, and spellbindingly beautiful.

    The Australian October 30, 2021

    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...

    Globe and Mail July 26, 2021

    A beautiful, haunting and enigmatic work that reckons with the folklore’s grave and tragic elements to deliver a masterpiece of blood, s...

    Bloody Disgusting July 26, 2021

    Lowery’s latest impresses and wows with a tactile, beguiling dark fantasy epic that cuts right to the Pagan heart of Arthurian legend.

    Screen International December 6, 2021

    The exceptional level of craftsmanship – which includes some seamless, low-key special effects – wouldn’t be nearly as affecting wi...

    New Yorker July 30, 2021

    "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...

    The Ringer August 13, 2021

    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...

    Polygon July 26, 2021

    Lowery’s The Green Knight is cinema’s best Arthurian adaptation, which may matter only to literary scholars. Everyone else will have to...

    The New Republic July 30, 2021

    David Lowery’s movie, starring Dev Patel, cleverly unfolds the public consequences of private indiscretions.

    Associated Press July 30, 2021

    The chapters don’t cohere in a sustained rhythm, but in richly evocative imagery, "The Green Knight" makes its own vivid film language a...

    Chicago Sun-Times July 30, 2021

    A dazzling, dizzying fever dream…

    The Guardian September 27, 2021

    What a strange and peculiarly powerful film this is.

    Boston Globe August 6, 2021

    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...

    Slate December 7, 2021

    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...

    AV Club July 26, 2021

    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...

    Los Angeles Times December 6, 2021

    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...

    New York Times July 29, 2021

    This movie is worth watching twice.

    The Jewish Chronicle September 25, 2021

    An unabashedly complex art film that is never watered down or affected by the fear of of box office failure. Simply stunning.

    Vanity Fair July 29, 2021

    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...

    Irish Times December 6, 2021

    It’s a pity that the preceding two hours don’t always fit, either thematically or qualitatively, with this dramatic, meaningful de...

    Vox December 6, 2021

    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...

    Film of the Week November 12, 2021

    Sculptural minimalism defines the medieval stonework, clanking armour takes on the sleek, supple forms of fetishwear, light piercing the frame from...

    The Age (Australia) October 28, 2021

    Over-calculated as it is, The Green Knight does have its authentically dreamlike passages. Near the heart of everything is the hero’s ambival...

    Wall Street Journal July 30, 2021

    Suffice it to say that this tale, romantic and symbolic in equal measure, ends exactly and breathtakingly as it must.

    Independent September 23, 2021

    The Green Knight has bottled that feeling of ancient foreboding – it’s Arthurian legend at its most rich and enigmatic.

    TheWrap July 26, 2021

    While there’s a lot of commendable chutzpah and curious longing baked into The Green Knight, the movie’s never as compelling as it...

    Rolling Stone August 2, 2021

    The Green Knight – an epic in miniature, a fantasy all the more poignant for its moral realities – makes this a lesson worth learning.

    Observer July 26, 2021

    Those expecting an Arthurian sword-and-sandals battle epic will be sorely disappointed. Instead, Lowery has delivered a dense, sensual, almost...

    Empire Magazine September 22, 2021

    A rivetingly weird and exceptionally beautiful fantasy film that offers no easy answers but ponders the biggest questions – through myths, mys...

    Hollywood Reporter July 26, 2021

    Led by Dev Patel at his most magnetic, this is a fantastical adventure in a genre all of its own.

    Times (UK) December 6, 2021

    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...

    New Yorker August 4, 2021

    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...

    The Atlantic July 28, 2021

    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...

    TIME Magazine July 26, 2021

    A movie that’s both of its time and splendidly out of step with it, an act of necromancy in a CGI world.

    filmcomment.com December 6, 2021

    The Green Knight’s attempts to blend a young man’s personal reckonings and psychic confrontations with Lowery’s go-for-broke...

    theplaylist.net July 26, 2021

    Told in sumptuously gritty imagery, this epic feat of bold imagination is unconcerned with mitigating its creative force for the sake of unadventur...

    Inside Hook September 21, 2021

    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.

    NPR July 29, 2021

    Lowery has taken a young man’s journey of self-discovery and fashioned it into a gorgeous and moving work of art.

    Variety July 26, 2021

    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...

    The Daily Beast July 30, 2021

    David Lowery’s latest is a mesmerizing medieval fantasy.

    USA Today July 26, 2021

    Several heads roll though it’s your mind that’ll get truly blown by "The Green Knight," a visually dazzling and thoughtful trip ba...

    CNN.com July 29, 2021

    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.

    Movie Mom July 28, 2021

    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...

    The Guardian July 26, 2021

    To disguise a film so artful and boldly uncommercial as mass-market entertainment for those still hurting from Game of Thrones' conclusion&nbs...

    Detroit News July 29, 2021

    Lowery dives all the way in and viewers are rewarded with a sumptuous feast for the eyes and the soul.

    Austin Chronicle July 30, 2021

    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...

    MovieFreak.com July 30, 2021

    In virtually every scene, Patel is simply marvelous.

    Entertainment Weekly December 6, 2021

    Knight is ultimately a tale of honor though, and a deeply moral one – inscrutable, but haunting too.

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    The day on streaming was not in vain. The film is online and will be watched tonight. As a major fan of David Lowry, I am anticipating a biblical movie buzz!

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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.

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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.

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    A very curious and beautiful movie about the growing up of a hero going through a difficult spiritual path. Some details and metaphors were not understood and ideally need revision.

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    No, well, did you see, did you see? Opening teaser trailer. Along with Nolan’s film, this will be one of the films of the year for me. A priori.

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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    Great film! Atmospheric. Creepy in places. Memorable. Gorgeous angles. Real fantasy. Worthy cinema

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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 (!)

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    After this movie, I will stop drinking and smoking. The movie went from insanely beautiful to insanely boring and tiring. The legend did not lead to anything, and the main character very stupidly once agreed to such a dubious action. If you do not fumble in the codes, you are not in this movie. There will be questions

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

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    The storyline with a woman without a head would look good, by the way, in one of the Witcher 3 quests. Yes, it was with such thoughts that I distracted myself so as not to rack my brains unsuccessfully while watching.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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    The aesthetics of the film are truly incredible! Like a Survivor in the Beacon lore. Playing with exposition, beautiful shots, cinematics. This is a masterpiece from the time of the Lighthouse, I am very impressed by what I saw. That time when you don’t want the film to end. I admire the work done by the authors. It’s five

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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.

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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!

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    Oh, those A24s with their arthouses. And I roughly imagined what awaits me, but still decided to go to the cinema, check it out – suddenly it will come. No. The explanation of the plot didn’t bring me closer to the movie either. The soundtrack isn’t bad, but it only adds to the weirdness of what’s going on.

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    A straight-forward story about the journey of a small, frightened, selfish boy to his own courage and honor. Beautiful and filled with metaphors. And yes, the author’s handwriting of the director is very felt. His Ghost Story was just as meditative

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    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.

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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!

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