Shakespeare on Screen
King Lear
Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1987)
- When
- Fri Sep 17, 2010
- Where
- Pacific Film Archive (PFA)
- Time
- 9:00-10:30 PM
- Cost
- $5.50 - $9.50
- Tags
- Movies, Film Screenings
Description
Shakespeare on Screen (Film Series)King Lear
Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1987)
Godard’s King Lear, predictably, is not a costume drama set in pre-Christian England. Instead we follow William Shakespeare V (Peter Sellars) as he wanders through a post-Chernobyl world, “a time when movies and art no longer exist and must be reinvented,” trying to reconstruct his ancestor’s play aided and abetted by Herr Doktor Professor Pluggy, played by Jean-Luc Godard himself. The film oscillates between telling the story of its own production and reconstructing Lear as a Mafia chieftain engaged in interminable rows with his daughters in interminable hotel rooms. Brilliant, witty, infuriating, the film testifies, yet again, to Godard’s astonishing engagement with sound and image and, despite all his own protestations, to an engagement with Shakespeare’s text.—Colin MacCabe, London Film Festival ’87
• Written by Norman Mailer. Photographed by Sophie Maintigneux. With Peter Sellars, Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, Godard. (90 mins, In French with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From MGM)
More Info
- Link
- http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/
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- 510.643.2197
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- 510.642.5249 (Box Office)
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