"Our hero is Perceval, one of King Arthur's legendary Knights of the Round Table, but played by a callow, gauche Luchini, a diametrical opposite of an invincible, valiant medieval jouster in appearance, there is an almost farcical overtone to the seriousness on display, perhaps, this is also intentional toward emotional disengagement, yet, sitting through the ongoing peroration demands quite an effort, especially for those who are not francophone, Rohmer's sedulous and fastidious coaxing of the ancient wording is unavoidably lost in translation."
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