Le Morte de Perlesvaux: el Perceval le Gallois d'Éric Rohmer i l'Excalibur de John Boorman

Abstract

Film makers who turn to a book as a source do not always use it in the same way. This article focuses on two examples taken from Arthurian re-tellings. In Perceval le Gallois (1978), Éric Rohmer respected the verse form and the medieval world vision of Chré-tien de Troyes’ Conte du Graal. Conversely, in Excalibur (1981) John Boorman uses Le Morte Darthur as a cata-logue of Arthurian episodes in order to render its key moments within a modern three-act cinematographic story structure