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King Lear
Directed by
Jean-Luc Godard
PG
1988
90m
Comedy
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Drama
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5.5
69%
57%
6.4
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A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
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Cast of King Lear
Peter Sellars
William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth / Writer
Burgess Meredith
Don Learo
Julie Delpy
Virginia
Leos Carax
Edgar
Molly Ringwald
Cordelia
Jean-Luc Godard
Professor Pluggy / Director / Writer / Executive Producer / Editor
Woody Allen
Mr. Alien (uncredited)
Freddy Buache
Professor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)
Menahem Golan
Self (voice) (uncredited) / Producer
Suzanne Lanza
(uncredited)
Kate Mailer
Self (uncredited)
Norman Mailer
Self (uncredited) / Writer
Michèle Pétin
Journalist (uncredited)
Richard Debuisne
Writer
Yoram Globus
Producer
Tom Luddy
Associate Producer
Sophie Maintigneux
Director Of Photography
Hervé Duhamel
Assistant Director
Johann Sebastian Bach
Music
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music
King Lear Ratings & Reviews
Slant Magazine
Jake Cole
Godard's 1987 film is a total deconstruction of the prospect of adaptation.
Michael J. Cinema
Michael J. Casey
The kind of nonsense that makes Godard's cinema inscrutable to some and electrifying to others.
trans|cendental cinema
Mattie Lucas
A Shakespearean remix in the key of Godard; a towering, confounding work of self-reinvention and metatextual self-reflection.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Godard's King Lear may be...extraordinarily timely.
Film Threat
Phil Hall
Shakespeare through the Godard meat-grinder.
TV Guide
A challenge, as with all Godard, but not quite his most rewarding one.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
Behind this is Godard's inability to resolve an essential contradiction in his work -- his reverence for ideas and theories and all sorts of philosophical speculation, and his utter disregard for a sustained, coherent presentation of them.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Cinematographer Sophie Mantigneux creates crisp, memorable images and Godard masterfully edits them together (whether the final result is worth the effort is subject to question).
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