2001 · adventure · drama · romance
A Knight's Tale
Directed by Brian Helgeland2h 13m2001
William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.
Our read: A Knight's Tale (2001) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded adventure · drama · romance entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, tender.
- sombre
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- extreme
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