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A drama movie revolves around King Lear who becomes sick and poor after reach his 80 age. Day after day, his illness increases so he thinks about the future of the country and decided to make a decree to designate his three daughters the rulers after him. Will they be able to rule the country without their father?.
Now 80 himself, the right age, Hopkins is at home in Lear's skin. Shouty, angry, cruel one moment; vulnerable, tender, loving the next - or at the same time. A mesmerising performance.
No doubt conscious of the competition, director Richard Eyre assembled so many galacticos for his bells-and-whistles modern-day-set TV version that at first it was hard to concentrate on anything else.
Flawed parenting, ingrate children and family estrangement will never not be relevant, and the modern-day dress gave it the feel of a production at ease with itself.