Le chevalier vert

Dev Patel campe un sire Gauvain intense et intègre, alors qu'il accomplit sa destinée avec courage et noblesse. À ses côtés, en figure féminine dédoublée, Alicia Vikander est sensuelle et envoûtante.

The Green Knight is all at once thrilling, gorgeous, and haunting.

This is a boldly unconventional film full of beguiling ambiguities, which eschews the hard-charging action and self-consciously modern attitudes that made the King Arthur entries of Antoine Fuqua and Guy Ritchie such generic duds. Instead, it embraces the strange remoteness of myth and Middle Ages lore on its own terms and creates something quietly dazzling and new.

David Lowery signe une magistrale adaptation cinématographique d'une des légendes la plus connue de l'époque, celle du Chevalier vert.

Ce film de chevalerie, très lent et beaucoup plus auteurisant que grand public, est à classer parmi ses réussites.

Light snow, misty fog, and falling ash blend in the opening scenes of David Lowery's magnificent The Green Knight, setting a surreal tone for what's to come. You can feel the chill and smell the air. Immediately, you feel outside yourself, far from daily concerns, set for an experience that's unlike anything else in nearby theaters. That feeling won't subside for over two hours.  

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

David Lowery's take on the epic poem seems more interested in the art direction than the storytelling.

The director turns a fantastical dream-poem into the myth under the myth of popular culture.

There's nothing more I can say other than it's mind-blowing and mind-bending, pulse-pounding, fantastically epic, deeply poignant, and the very best movie of the year so far.

Le motif du cercle, couronne, auréole, percole tout long de cette ode filmique sur le cycle de la vie et la place de l'humain et de sa droiture dans cet écosystème.

Director David Lowery's take on the 14th-century poem about Sir Gawain's quest for greatness turns Arthurian legend inside out.

On salue bien bas l'excellent - et moderne - choix de Dav Patel pour incarner ce chevalier torturé, traduisant avec brio ses états d'âme au fil des 125 minutes pendant lesquelles il reste le point de mire quasi exclusif de la caméra.