Original title: King Lear
Year: 1987
Country: France
Region code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515308212
Image: 1.37:1 (2160p)
HDR: -
Audio: French - 2.0 Surround DTS-HD Master
Subtitles: English
Rating: Not Rated
Genre: Drama
Cast: Peter Sellars, Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, Jean-Luc Godard, Julie Delpy
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Synopsis:
Jean-Luc Godard's first English-language narrative feature is a radical anti-adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece that finds the visionary filmmaker continuing to reinvent the syntax of cinema. In a post-Chernobyl world where culture has been lost, William Shakespeare Jr. V (played by theater director Peter Sellars) attempts to reconstruct his ancestor's play, abetted by a cast that includes Molly Ringwald, Burgess Meredith, and Godard himself as a crazed avant savant. Through a dense layering of sounds, images, and ideas about everything from language to the economics of filmmaking to the very meaning of art in a ruined world, Godard fashions a puckish and profound metacinematic riddle to be endlessly analyzed, argued over, and savored.
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