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Movie description: Director Peter Brook's adaptation of Shakespeare's towering play. The film stars Paul Scofield ("A Man For All Seasons") as a harrowing, mythic King Lear, a great, gray beast of a man lumbering toward the Void, a king mired in his own folly and in the duplicity of a world he thought he could control. Lear's daughters are stunningly cast: Goneril (Irene Worth), Regan (Susan Engel), and Cordelia (Anne-Lise Gabold). Director Brook chose to shoot his exteriors on Denmark's Jutland Peninsula, a visually staunch and bleak environment, and to costume his cast in primitive garb emphasizing the raw human emotions that drive the play. Through use of an ongoing juxtaposition of close-ups and long-shots Brook emphasizes the tragic inner workings of the embattled Lear, bringing Scofield's magnificent performance to the fore. The exceptional cast also includes Cyril Cusack and Patrick Magee. "A film of real poetry and power." ~ Jack Kroll, Newsweek</i>
Movie description: Director Peter Brook's adaptation of Shakespeare's towering play. The film stars Paul Scofield ("A Man For All Seasons") as a harrowing, mythic King Lear, a great, gray beast of a man lumbering toward the Void, a king mired in his own folly and in the duplicity of a world he thought he could control. Lear's daughters are stunningly cast: Goneril (Irene Worth), Regan (Susan Engel), and Cordelia (Anne-Lise Gabold). Director Brook chose to shoot his exteriors on Denmark's Jutland Peninsula, a visually staunch and bleak environment, and to costume his cast in primitive garb emphasizing the raw human emotions that drive the play. Through use of an ongoing juxtaposition of close-ups and long-shots Brook emphasizes the tragic inner workings of the embattled Lear, bringing Scofield's magnificent performance to the fore. The exceptional cast also includes Cyril Cusack and Patrick Magee. "A film of real poetry and power." ~ Jack Kroll, Newsweek</i>
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