The Green Knight Movie

So I got to watch The Green Knight

I had mixed feelings coming to it. As you know, I had spent more than a year working on my own illustrations for that same text (see here). So I am biased by Simon Armitage’s version of it.

So first things first, the movie uses the text to build its own story. This means it departs a lot from the original text. And that’s OK. The movie really works for me. It keeps me interested and engaged. Visually it is stunning but I wonder if that A24 look will date in a few years time. It doesn’t matter now. While it wasn’t what I was expecting, it is a great interpretation of the story.

Have you watched it? What do you think of it?

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