1981 · fantasy · adventure · drama
Excalibur (1981)
Directed by John Boorman2h 21m1981
Arthur fulfills his fate by bringing together the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot and unifying the country. However, this flawed monarch faces greater tests ahead in pursuit of love, the Holy Grail, and his nation's survival.
Our read: Excalibur (1981) (1981) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive fantasy · adventure · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, extreme fantasy / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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