Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on July 12, 2005 at 15:29:55

Bresson thinking?
Not one smile in the entire movie, not one: this is serious "art" here, folks.
The scenes between Queen Guenevere and Lancelot were as unromantic as watching two amoeba collide. Both emoted their lines with so much vigor they made David Mamet's actors appear hysterical in comparison.
I don't know who cast Lancelot but the guy looked like a heavy from a Film Noir detective story.
It was hard to watch after the first moments, actually. The "action" scenes were so amateurish as to be parodies.
I did figure out what the director meant to portray by all those close-ups of the rumps during the jousting scenes: he was holding a mirror up to the audience: only a group of horses' asses would have sat still for this crap for so long.
(You've seen better sets and costuming at a high school production of "Camelot," as well. The budget was so small that the knights were reduced to clanking around inside with their armor on---spending on period costumes was not in this budget; this Queen dressed in what appeared to be better fitting and colored Long Johns).