An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Acting
Ian Holm's Lear: small, trembling, absolutely annihilating.
Direction
Eyre strips it bare—no grandeur, just raw domestic horror.
Production
Cramped spaces amplify the suffocation. No escape from the storm.
Director
Richard Eyre
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