Wednesday, December 28, 2011

King Lear (1953)


Directed by Andrew McCullough
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, E1 Entertainment)

Archaic TV production by Peter Brook and company omits the subplots and focuses strictly on the disintegration of King Lear. I must admit difficulty in following the language of Shakespeare, only being able to make out a word here or there. Welles is appropriately grandiloquent, but only the last scene, dragging the dead body of Cordelia to the throne, made any lasting impression on me.

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