Lentorama 2014: We're Ready for Your Closeup, Your Holiness

Day 27: The Red Knight.

I have no idea what to make of this film, which appears to riff off both the Red Knight myth from Arthurian legend and the Crusades. The plot is also a little hard to follow based on what I can find - the titular knight has some sort of divinely-granted strength due to saving his best friend from a fire, but he also wronged the friend in a romantic dispute, and maybe the friend turns into a boar at night? The pope then asks the knight to find someone who fled from the papal court for reasons I don't quite understand.

Would it surprise you to learn that this is a French film?

The knight is played by veteran actor Daniel Auteuil, which is heartening as if this were an American film they'd never let an actor in his 50s near a role that appears to combine romantic and action elements. Pope Innocent III is played by Jean-Francois Gallotte, another veteran French actor, but who I know nothing about.