King Lear

My new favorite Godard film, and possibly the one i have seen which skews the closest to being a pure philosophical/poetic essay on the nature of the cinematic medium itself, and even the nature of images and words. I sort of hate to admit the possibility that it may be due to the film being in English that i was able to appreciate these meditations on a purely visceral sonic level that simply is not possible when reading subtitles (an unfortunate bias), yet it's a favorable effect all the same.

On paper, it's an absolute disaster of a movie. In execution, it still kind of is a disaster, but the film is so bizarre and plainly entertaining while also being incredibly dense and meaningful, so it's really Godard at his best. Proof that there's always a method to Godard's madness, and truly just a stunning film. "I think the mafia is the only way to do King Lear."

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30 dias de JLG - Filme #2: Rei Lear estreava há 35 anos no Festival de Toronto. Fico imaginando os fãs de John Hughes indo ver esse filme porque a Molly Ringwald está no elenco. Rá! Esse trabalho tem muito da releitura do Peter Sellars revirando do avesso a obra shakepeareana como já fazia no teatro, Godard deu um passo além e a transferiu para sua linguagem própria. DVDRip no MakingOff.

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