King Lear

Edition no. 1249

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MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard’s first English-language narrative feature is a radical anti-adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece that finds the visionary filmmaker continuing to reinvent the syntax of cinema. In a post-Chernobyl world where culture has been lost, William Shakespeare Jr. V (played by theater director Peter Sellars) attempts to reconstruct his ancestor’s play, abetted by a cast that includes Molly Ringwald, Burgess Meredith, and Godard himself as a crazed avant savant. Through a dense layering of sounds, images, and ideas about everything from language to the economics of filmmaking to the very meaning of art in a ruined world, Godard fashions a puckish and profound metacinematic riddle to be endlessly analyzed, argued over, and savored.

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Format: DVD
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Audio: English 2.0 Dolby Digital Surround
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Subtitles: English
Region: 1
Discs: 1 Disc |  DVD-9

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