Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

1975 / 91min / DCP

Dedicated skewerers of every aspect of English society, in this, their irresistibly quotable medieval farce, the Pythons aimed their satirical lance at nothing less than the foundational myths of Albion, following Graham Chapman’s King Arthur and his Round Table-mates on a quest for the Cup of Christ that takes them through back-talking peasantry, impossibly rude Frenchmen, the Knights of Ni, throat-ripping rabbits and ankle-biting quadruple amputees, the eager nubiles of Castle Anthrax, and finally to the perilous pass of the Bridge of Death. Though critically divisive on its release, Elvis liked it so much he bought his own print to run on repeat. In this, as in so much else, the passage of time has vindicated the King.

Distributor: AGFA

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