SummaryA descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Directed By:Jean-Luc Godard
King Lear
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In Godard’s “King Lear,” a single phrase, a single word, gives rise to an astonishing outpouring of visual investigation and invention.
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If Godard's use of sound is as inventive as it was in his Dolby "Detective" of 1985, that's reason alone to check it out. [08 Apr 1988, p.B]
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It may drive you nuts, but it’s probably the most inventive and original Godard film since Passion.
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Another of [Godard's] essays on the impossiblity of making movies in our time, this has all the dreariness of a pathologist's dictated notes.
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William Shakespeare would need a sense of humor to view Jean-Luc Godard's "King Lear" without getting steamed up in his bodkins.
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Jean-Luc Godard’s “King Lear” is his most off-putting picture since his unwatchable political films of the ‘70s.
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While it would be foolish to expect a completely faithful Shakespeare adaptation from Godard, there is no pleasure in being fooled into thinking that this vague, obscure, annoying, cacophonous wreck of a film is anything but a joke being played by a self-indulgent filmmaker.
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Production Company:
- The Cannon Group
- Golan-Globus Productions
Release Date:Jan 22, 1988
Duration:1 h 30 m
Rating:PG
Tagline:Fear and Loathing. A Study. An Approach. A Clearing. No Thing
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Cahiers du Cinéma
• 1 Nomination
