movie review - the mists of avalon

i just finished watching the mists of avalon. i have the book somewhere, but i’ve not yet read it. the movie was lovely, beautiful. the clothing was ethereal and garments i would choose to wear. julianna margulies, anjelica huston and joan allen were the three female leads. julianna is one of THE most beautiful women i have ever seen (yeah, even though she did er, i won’t hold it against her. after all, she did a movie entitled traveller), there are few words I wish to use to describe angelica. she is in my top five of actresses. if you’ve not see the movie agnes browne, DO SO. however, joan allen startled me with her performance, especially toward the end of the movie (it’s long, three hours, but I believe it was a tv miniseries). she just downright blew me away.

the mists tells the story of camelot, king arthur and avalon from the eyes of morgan le fey, the character's name is actually morgaine. (by the way, the morrighan is my goddess. I hold her near and dear to me. she is even inked on my body. somewhere along the line the morrighan lost her goddess self and became morgain). she is in no way evil. morgaine was trying to save her land from the saxon invasions and to live in harmony with the christians, each to their own. obviously, it just was not meant to be.

i did have fault with the accentuation on christianity. how it took over (not the land, that is a fact, but took over the movie) and how it was (in my eyes of course) proposed to be the TRUE GOOD religion. maybe i misinterpreted, i will just have to read the book.

on the whole i recommend it. not only is it fem-based but as i said, it’s lovely to watch. the battle scenes don’t overwhelm either. i do have problems with that (as an example the clive owen king arthur had WAY too much fighting. but clive is fine to look at plus the man can act. I just fast forwarded through the battles). perfect casting choices, lovely costumes and damn fine story. the end of one and the dawning of another age

the mists of avalon by marion zimmer bradley