Storyline

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...—Michael Brooke

Plot Keywords

brutality, inhumanity, treason, gothic, dread, king, absurdism, alone, savagery, homoeroticism, pride, desire, indifference, grief, sadist, psychopath, adulterous wife, treachery, horse, forest

Short Review

The whole film is shot in compellingly austere colors and a rapt gaze sweeping downward from the sky and ending, horrifyingly fixed on armored bodies lying in the mud.

Trailer

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