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King Lear

2015 · 156 min Drama
8.3 / 10 · TMDB

The Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed performance of King Lear. An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.

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Year 2015
Country Canada
Genre Drama
Director Joan Tosoni
Runtime 156 min.
Rating TMDB: 8.3/10 (3 votes)

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The Stratford Festival's production distills Shakespeare's monumental tragedy into a raw, visceral experience where every royal gesture masks a primal human need. The descent from palace opulence to barren heath is not just spatial, but a profound mapping of the soul's geography.

What lingers after the final curtain is the echo of a voice stripped bare—a testament to theater's power to excavate the core of our shared fragility. This is not a period piece, but a mirror held up to any age of folly and grace. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Joan Tosoni

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Courtly whispers dissolving into the storm's howl, the weight of a crown becoming the weight of nothing.

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