King Lear 1987 Ages 15+
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Production still from King Lear 1987 / Director: Jean-Luc Godard / Image courtesy: Park Circus / View full image
When
1.00pm, Sun 19 Nov 2023 (90 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
About
The troubled circumstances of a film's production have rarely been as visible as they are in Jean-Luc Godard's stubborn non-adaptation of 'King Lear', which begins with an answer machine message from the film's financiers pleading for updates on its progress, and grows only more self-reflexive from there. Having signed a contract on a paper napkin at the Cannes Film Festival, guaranteeing him a fee of $1 million for a big-screen version of 'King Lear' written by Norman Mailer and starring Woody Allen, the ever-intransigent Godard set about fulfilling his obligations in spectacularly bad faith. Both Allen and Mailer appear, but only fleetingly, while the bulk of the film's runtime is instead surrendered to a typically Godardian rumination on art, apocalypse and the act—so brashly abandoned here—of adaptation.
King Lear will screen from an imported 35mm print.
Ages 15+
Production Credits
- Director: Jean-Luc Godard
- Script: Peter Sellars, Tom Luddy
- Based on: the play by William Shakespeare
- Cinematographer: Sophie Maintigneux
- Editor: Jean-Luc Godard
- Print Source: Park Circus
- Rights: Park Circus
- Year: 1987
- Runtime: 90 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Colour: Colour
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 35mm