King Lear (1970)
Country: GB/DK
Technical: bw 137m
Director: Peter Brook
Cast: Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Alan Webb
Synopsis:
Old King Lear decides to auction off his kingdom to his three daughters in proportion to their filial love, and naturally the most sincere receives the smallest share. The consequences are sibling rivalry and paternal madness, while the division in the state finds its reflection in the household of the king's chief courtier.
Review:
Brook's idiosyncratic, extraordinarily mud-soaked, monochrome Lear, filmed in Jutland, at times looks as though it's shot through a window pane during a thunderstorm. The poetry is in 'close-up', voiceover style, the great Scofield's performance seeming mannered and alienating almost from the off, and the rest of the cast, hardly luminaries, fare even less well. Not a satisfactory experience.
Country: GB/DK
Technical: bw 137m
Director: Peter Brook
Cast: Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Alan Webb
Synopsis:
Old King Lear decides to auction off his kingdom to his three daughters in proportion to their filial love, and naturally the most sincere receives the smallest share. The consequences are sibling rivalry and paternal madness, while the division in the state finds its reflection in the household of the king's chief courtier.
Review:
Brook's idiosyncratic, extraordinarily mud-soaked, monochrome Lear, filmed in Jutland, at times looks as though it's shot through a window pane during a thunderstorm. The poetry is in 'close-up', voiceover style, the great Scofield's performance seeming mannered and alienating almost from the off, and the rest of the cast, hardly luminaries, fare even less well. Not a satisfactory experience.
Country: GB/DK
Technical: bw 137m
Director: Peter Brook
Cast: Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Alan Webb
Synopsis:
Old King Lear decides to auction off his kingdom to his three daughters in proportion to their filial love, and naturally the most sincere receives the smallest share. The consequences are sibling rivalry and paternal madness, while the division in the state finds its reflection in the household of the king's chief courtier.
Review:
Brook's idiosyncratic, extraordinarily mud-soaked, monochrome Lear, filmed in Jutland, at times looks as though it's shot through a window pane during a thunderstorm. The poetry is in 'close-up', voiceover style, the great Scofield's performance seeming mannered and alienating almost from the off, and the rest of the cast, hardly luminaries, fare even less well. Not a satisfactory experience.