Bard SummerScape
Film: Perceval le Gallois
August 13, 2009
Bard SummerScape
August 13, 2009
1978, directed by Eric Rohmer
French with English Subtitles
140 minutes
Eric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois (1978) represents an alternative cinematic version of medieval legends for which Wagner created memorable operatic settings. Rohmer’s highly stylized version of the Parsifal legend is itself a kind of homage to the studio style of an earlier era of filmmaking.
This film is part of the Politics, Theater, and Wagner Film Festival.