Review of Perceval (1978) by David S — 10 Jul 2010

A very strange adaptation of a medieval poem. Completely artificial in its set-up; so much so that Rohmer is surely commenting on productions in general. The problem is not necessarily that the text isn't focused on battles (it has witty asides to dismiss them), but that the story in its effort to portray some sort of journey of Perceval, undercuts itself regularly--most egregiously for me when it abandons his story for a time completely (just when it's getting interesting) to follow Gawain.