KING LEAR (Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro, 1971)
By grunes
Solemn, slow, intelligent though in no way inspired version of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Grigori Kozintsev’s Soviet Korol Lir, based (like his Gamlet) on a Boris Pasternak translation, is a terrible disappointment. Jüri Järvet, the Estonian actor who plays Lear, does a so-so job.
Lots of lovely black-and-white shots, but scarcely a single interesting one.
A better film than Peter Brook’s inhuman King Lear the same year, and better, too, than Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (1985); but essentially this one is solely for the culture-vultures.
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KING LEAR (Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro, 1971)
By grunesSolemn, slow, intelligent though in no way inspired version of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Grigori Kozintsev’s Soviet Korol Lir, based (like his Gamlet) on a Boris Pasternak translation, is a terrible disappointment. Jüri Järvet, the Estonian actor who plays Lear, does a so-so job.
Lots of lovely black-and-white shots, but scarcely a single interesting one.
A better film than Peter Brook’s inhuman King Lear the same year, and better, too, than Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (1985); but essentially this one is solely for the culture-vultures.
This entry was posted on September 3, 2007 at 10:39 am and is filed under Informal Capsule Film Comments. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.