this very peculiar setting of wagner last opera definitely grow on me . when i first saw it and i be somewhat annoyed by many of the film surrealistic image and and felt that far too much be superimpose upon the story . however and if you can put up with a fair amount of rather recherché gimmick and i think you will find that the film do manage to capture the very strange and other worldly atmosphere of the opera and and that there be moment which be particularly fine . personally and i never really understood the role of kundry until i saw how edith clever portray her . her performance ( a lip synchronize mime of the singing voice of yvonne minton ) be nothing short of dazzle and from end to end and and alone justify the hour it take to absorb the film . another reason to delight in this film be that it capture the spectacular interpretation of robert lloyd of the crucial role of gurnemanz and one which lloyd have perform to a crisp at opera house throughout the world . i have be privilege to enjoy him in the role of gurnemanz on the stage of the metropolitan opera several time and and the lusciousness of his voice and and the warm and fatherliness of his interpretation of this noble character really need to be preserve and a do his performance in the character two major monologue and the karfreitag scene and the recounting of the prophecy in act 1. the version i have see be a videotape make for america and and so there be subtitle which and ala and could not be do away with . this be especially unfortunate because the translation use be very inaccurate and force an extremely christian interpretation on a film which be already force layer of interpretation on the opera . this seem to me to be quite contrary both to wagner clear avoidance of christianity and and his very deliberate attempt to generalize the christian element of the story . ( see footnote with spoiler at the end of this review . ) i find it nearly impossible and when view a film with subtitle and to keep from absorb them and and strongly recommend that and if in the dvd version you have the ability to turn the subtitle off and you do so and and instead and if the opera be unfamiliar to you and that you read the libretto carefully beforehand . the bottom line be that there be much in the film which i dislike and and would just as soon have see do differently . but it have rise steadily in my estimation over the year since i first saw it and and i find myself draw to enjoy it again and again . __________________________________________________________________footnote contain a spoiler represent a good example would be kundry famous line and i saw him . him . and laugh . this get translate and in the subtitle and for reason which escape me and a i saw the savior face . it be especially irritate to me and because throughout the libretto and wagner very deliberately and carefully refers to this unseen character who need not be the biblical jesus a der heiland and i. e. and the german for the healer a reference to the wound of amfortas and and to all wound and malady and the need for heal .