King Lear

Name: King Lear
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy
Released: January 22, 1988
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 50

1988

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Cannon Film Distributors | Release Date: January 22, 1988 | PG

Summary: A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy

Rating: PG

Runtime: 90 min

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Richard Brody

In Godard’s “King Lear,” a single phrase, a single word, gives rise to an astonishing outpouring of visual investigation and invention. Read full review

Dave Kehr

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]

Jonathan Rosenbaum

It may drive you nuts, but it’s probably the most inventive and original Godard film since Passion. Read full review

Vincent Canby

The most depressing thing about this Godard work is that it seems so tired, familiar and out of date. The movie's 1960's-ish worship of film as an end in itself, which was a mark of so many earlier, more ebullient Godard movies, now is lifeless. Read full review

Hal Hinson

Watching Jean-Luc Godard's very loose adaptation of "King Lear" is like finding yourself in the middle of a poem whose meaning the poet refuses to make clear. Read full review

Desson Thomson

William Shakespeare would need a sense of humor to view Jean-Luc Godard's "King Lear" without getting steamed up in his bodkins. Read full review

Phil Hall

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. Read full review

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