Monday Morning Foreign-Region DVD Report: "Lancelot du Lac"

“Even by dir­ect­or Robert Bresson’s exact­ing, idio­syn­crat­ic stand­ards, his 1974 Lancelot du Lac is a pecu­li­ar film,” I write over at The Auteurs’ Notebook. The ori­gin­al poster for the film cer­tainly took note of one of the film’s idio­syn­crasies: its fant­ast­ic­al blood­shed, which was par­od­ied a couple of years later in the hil­ari­ous Black Knight scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Among the non-actors Bresson assembled for this pic­ture is one Laura Duke Condominas, daugh­ter of one of my very favor­ite writers, the Oulipean Harry Mathews. Note any fam­ily resemblance? 

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