Tristan & Isolde

We watched Tristan & Isolde last night, with a bottle of wine to celebrate M's return from his course which had involved him being away for two nights. It was good fun and had *some* elements of the legends of Tristan & Isolde. The real hero of the tale was the rather lovely Rufus Sewell as Mark, King of Cornwall, who was the only one to do right throughout.

Following the movie I said that he, Rufus, was the same guy who played the Black Prince in A Knight's Tale. I do love that film, it's so good-natured and rollicking. Some people criticised it for using rock music and pop culture in amongst the medieval landscape of the film, but I thought it just added fun and that the film wasn't meant as a depiction of the time, more as a pastiche of the genre. M said he wasn't and a heated debate ensued, at which point we had to resort to actual fact-finding missions: he to the credits of the DVD, me to the internet. :D

Of course, he was right, the barst. :D The Black Prince was played by James Purefoy. But you can see where the confusion arose: