Directed by Peter Yates
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Columbia TriStar)
An aging Shakespearean actor (Albert Finney) faces a performance of King Lear on a night when he is quite possibly losing his mind. Senility has set in and he can't remember the play, much less his lines, even though he has done it hundreds of times. His dresser (Tom Courtenay) must not only coax him to the theater, but somehow get him in make-up and on the stage. It is a tour-de-force performance by both leads. My only complaint is Courtenay's self-consciously effeminate character, who too frequently has silly temper tantrums when things don't go his way.
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