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Movie Review - "Bertela Kisses Gawaine"
The movie, i would say, is completely humorless. It may be because there's this sort of change in tone, this levity to the bertlac section of the story that it got drastically cut back in the movie. We do see some version of the bertalac story, but basically, gawayne spends his time with the lady and he does see that she's intelligent. And intellectual, and clearly is very appealing to gawayne. But there's only one seduction attempt, whereas in the poem there are three.