King Lear (2018)
Director: Richard Eyre · Writer: Richard Eyre
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Where to watch
Amazon Prime Video
Trailer
Director
Richard Eyre
Cast
Anthony Hopkins
Lear 
Emma Thompson
Goneril 
Emily Watson
Regan 
Jim Broadbent
Earl of Gloucester 
Florence Pugh
Cordelia 
Jim Carter
Earl of Kent 
Andrew Scott
Edgar 
John Macmillan
Edmund 
Tobias Menzies
Duke of Cornwall 
Anthony Calf
Duke of Albany 
Karl Johnson
Fool 
Christopher Eccleston
Oswald User Reviews (1)
**_A strong adaptation marred by a poor central performance_** > _The Lear of Shakespeare cannot be acted. The contemptible machinery by which they mimic the storm which he goes out in, is not more inadequate to represent the horrors of the real elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear: they might more easily propose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a stage, or one of Michael Angelo's terrible figures. The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual: the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano: they are storms turning up and disclosing to t__he bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on; even as he himself neglects it. On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage; while we read …
