Event

HONOR OF THE KNIGHTS

HONOR OF THE KNIGHTS
(aka HONOR DE CAVALLERIA)
dir. Albert Serra, 2006
100 mins.
In Catalan with English subtitles.

MONDAY, APRIL 3 10 PM
TUESDAY, APRIL 11 10 PM
FRIDAY, APRIL 14 7:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 7:30 PM

Serras first feature reimagines Don Quixote soot and all: the interplay between Sancho (Lluís Serrat) and Quixote (Lluís Carbó) is less rhetorical than familial, both tender and eerie in its meandering, inviting the viewer to project their own histories onto the speaker/listener relationship that once undergirded Cervantes text as well as teasing out radical redefinitions of both honor (companionship?) and knightdom (serfdom? au pair-dom?). This Quixote is at once a doddering old man and a sage tumescent with life wisdom in his undying pursuit of chivalry but does anyone (beyond the bumbling Sancho, anyway) care? HONOR OF THE KNIGHTS features a cast assembled of non-actors from Serras hometown of Banyoles, while cinematographer Jimmy Gemferrers not-quite-HD camera luxuriates in the Catalan countryside.

On the eve of release for THE STORY OF MY DEATH which performs a similar intervention upon Dracula and Casanova Serra told Cinema Scope Magazine: With these characters you have more or less all the information and, well, then I can do whatever I want, I am free, and I dont care about being more or less faithful to the original source or character that comes from literature or history.