Film
King Lear
- 9:30PM
Jean-Luc Godard plays his own version of a Shakespearean fool. Peter Sellars is William Shakespeare Jr. the Fifth, trying to reconstruct his famous forefather’s work. Burgess Meredith and Molly Ringwald are a father and daughter inspired by Shakespeare’s tragic characters, but gangsters. Norman Mailer (who was supposed to write the script) makes an appearance—and then disappears.
Traces of the Bard’s play come through in this beguiling, fragmented work—but ultimately Godard seems most driven by his fascination with the limitations of communication and coherence.
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