The Green Knight (2021)

 

I read The Quest of the Holy Grail once, and this adaptation of a related tale about the nephew of King Arthur, Sir Gawain, journeying to see a Green Knight to pay a due, brought that book back to mind, perfectly evoking the dreaminess and painterliness of the book's chapters, with some, like the episodes in the movie, ending without obvious point while others thrill with chivalrous exploits, all taking place against a beautifully realised medieval time steeped in magic and religion, albeit in a movie with two or three scenes, clanging attempts at modernity, which jolt the viewer out of the otherwise mesmerising fantasy.

★★★★☆

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Lion (2016)

A man who was adopted as a child lies on a couch in Tasmania and scours Google Earth for the home in rural India where he was brought up, in this deeply personal and deeply moving movie treatment of Saroo Brierley's 25 years' lost, a threadbare mouse-click of a story greatly benefitted by National Geographic-style photography, a score that swells at all the right emotional moments and the wonderful performance of Sunny Pawar.

★★★★☆

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