King Lear (1987)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard · Cinematography by Sophie Maintigneux
PG90 min59 frames
ComedyDrama
Jealous love leads to destruction.
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What is King Lear about?
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
King Lear is a 1987 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and produced by Cannon Films, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play in the avant-garde style of French New Wave cinema. The script was originally assigned to Norman Mailer but Mailer's text was not used. The working script was written by Godard, assisted by Peter Sellars and Tom Luddy. It is not a typical cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare's eponymous tragedy, although some lines from the play are used in the film. Only three characters – Lear, Cordelia and Edgar – are common to both, and only Act I, scene 1, is given a conventional cinematic treatment in that two or three people actually engage in relatively meaningful dialogue.
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Across 59 sampled frames, King Lear builds its coverage from medium shots (46% of the sample), with close-ups (32%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Sophie Maintigneux keeps 47% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Focus stays shallow in 69% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of King Lear?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of King Lear (1987) are #342f2d, #0d0c0b, #f4f3f1, #56514b, #271a16, #d5d1cc — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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