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This screening of King Lear will be presented in 35mm.

Once declared by New Yorker film critic Richard Brophy to be the greatest film ever made, Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear is a typically idiosyncratic take on the classic tale from the legendary New Wave auteur. Famed theatre director Peter Sellars leads a striking cast as William Shakespeare Jr the Fifth, who is attempting to revive the work of his ancestor after a global apocalyptic disaster. Never a traditionalist, Godard opts to play loosely with the themes and content of the eponymous play and, in doing so, crafts a mesmerising, enigmatic treatise on Shakespeare, cinema, and the concept of adaptation. The film's cast includes appearances from Norman Mailer, Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, Woody Allen, and Godard himself.

Ages 15+