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Made for the tercentenary of Shakespeare’s death, the film preserves Frederick Warde’s stage authority in a feature adaptation directed by his son Ernest.
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Names and political turns accumulate quickly. Hold to Lear’s first test of his daughters, then watch each later loss expose what that test failed to recognise.
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Une brève note non exhaustive Includes family abuse, betrayal, war, blinding, madness, death, and severe compression of the play.
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Lear asks for love to become a public performance and then mistakes fluency for truth. I watch the tragedy begin before anyone leaves the first room.
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