FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Jean-Luc Godard - King Lear 

Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear is a somewhat different interpretation of Shakespeare. The cast alone! Molly Ringwald, Burgess Meredith and the unnamed Woody Allen! So here is the Breakfast Club paired with Woody Allen. And the setting? Chernobyl. Godard's King Lear is set in the future. In a future where all culture has been lost. So a descendant of Shakespeare is now given the task of rewriting King Lear. Word for word. Godard turns the play into a kind of collage. Scenes can be rewound at will. One cut and we never see the characters again. Those who find meaning in it may continue to think. King Lear was produced by Cannon Films, of all people, the B-movie factory of the time. Two million was invested, although the finished work did not even bring in 20,000 again. American actors on Lake Geneva in Switzerland twist Shakespeare's dialogue under distorting cuts. That's how you can imagine it.