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National Theatre Live: King Lear

National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018)

September. 27,2018

8.3

| Drama

Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.

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Cast

Ian McKellen as King Lear

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Reviews

Redwarmin

2018/09/27

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Tedfoldol

2018/09/28

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Curapedi

2018/09/29

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

InformationRap

2018/09/30

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.