King Lear

Name: King Lear
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Released: 1987-01-01

1987 film by Jean-Luc Godard

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Released: 1987
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard
, Norman Mailer
Producer: Yoram Globus
, Menahem Golan
Cast: Peter Sellars
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, Burgess Meredith
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, Molly Ringwald
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, Woody Allen
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Runtime: 90 min
Genre: drama film
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Country of origin: France
, United States

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King Lear is a 1987 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and produced by Cannon Films, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play in the avant-garde style of French New Wave cinema. The script was originally assigned to Norman Mailer but Mailer's text was not used. The working script was written by Godard, assisted by Peter Sellars and Tom Luddy. It is not a typical cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare's eponymous tragedy, although some lines from the play are used in the film. Only three characters – Lear, Cordelia and Edgar – are common to both, and only Act I, scene 1, is given a conventional cinematic treatment in that two or three people actually engage in relatively meaningful dialogue.

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Narrative location: Switzerland
Film editor: Jean-Luc Godard
Title: King Lear
Color: color
Based on: King Lear
Director of photography: Sophie Maintigneux
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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Review score: 55%(October 7, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 11 critic review
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4.8/10(October 7, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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Characters: Lear
Cordelia
Grigori Kozintsev
After a work by: William Shakespeare

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