Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three daughters - Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Before he bestows these gifts upon his daughters, he gives them a ...

The slate is headlined by Jean-Luc Godard's "King Lear," an essential work from the ... as a jumping off point for a postmodern riff on art in a world decimated by the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown.

A stage-to-screen film of King Lear, filmed in the round in Manchester. A brutal portrait of a man unravelling - pitted against his daughters, nature and the universe itself. Show more A stage-to ...