Movie
King Lear
2017 · 56 min
A quiet, painful documentary that watches a man's private grief slowly merge with the role he has chased all his life.
- Directed by
- Denis Klebleev
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- An old and wealthy actor, whose life's obsession is to play King Lear, suffers from a family tragedy of his own that turns him into a real-life Shakespearean character.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, dark, earnest and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Grief, obsession, family, aging
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Denis Klebleev
- Genres
- Documentary