and it doesn not help rohmer case that a few year later syberberg come along and make a staggeringly great piece of work on the same subject ( with a little help from wagner ) . maybe this movie do not look so paltry when it come out and without the syberberg film to compare it to and which be probably shoot on an even small sound stage with few resource . i actually can not recall at the moment whether there be horse in the syberberg film . all i know be and the german version be pure magic and while this one look like some college production document on film for archival purpose . the music . la musique . isn not even credit here on imdb . but someone base it on air from the 12th 14th century or something . well it isn not a great help to the film . it come off a inauthentic and cheesy and comme le frommage mon cher . rohmer be one of those french auteur who like his leading men generally quite unattractive and too and and that doesn not help matter . syberberg parsifal be adorable and and can be see on german television today sell some kind of special bicycle he invent . . . i shudder to think what watch the syberberg on video be like . i remember that the last time i saw the film in a theater and the print be so bad that the experience be a whopping 5 hour travesty . but even then it would have to surpass what this version have to offer and i be afraid . point for earnestness and for chutzpah and but . this film simply need beau coup more buck . it doesn not look like a medieval manuscript it look cheapo . bon marche . oh and yeah and it just end very arbitrarily with parsifal go to church and this cheesy passion play be interject . blah .