King Lear (1999)
- Directed by
- Tony Rotherham, Brian Blessed
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 3h 10m
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
An aging king decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters based on their flattery of him. His two eldest daughters exaggerate their love, while the youngest refuses to play along, leading to tragic consequences.
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What happens
King Lear is a 1999 adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name. The film stars Brian Blessed (who also co-directed the film, along with Tony Rotherham) in the title role. Apart from Peter Brook's King Lear in 1971, it is the only feature-length film adaptation to preserve Shakespeare's verse. Yvonne Griggs, in Shakespeare's King Lear: A close study of the relationship between text and film (2009), characterised it as "a very stilted costume drama". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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