Mostly deserves the hype.
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06/11/01
The King is Alive (2001)
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Reviews Counted:65
Fresh:39
Rotten:26
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Though the plot feels rather contrived, the ensemble acting in this Dogme 95 film is good.
Theatrical Release:May 11, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: The fourth contribution to the grass roots Dogme 95 collective, THE KING IS ALIVE is a psychological horror film that uses a bleak yet beautiful African landscape to tell a haunting tale of human... [More]
Starring: Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, Bruce Davison, Brion James
Director: Kristian Levring
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Reviews for The King is Alive
It's all very watchable, thanks to excellent performances all around...
06/24/06
A solid film.
05/11/01
Levring's characters are barely more absurd than the film's arbitrary ideas.
05/08/01
Top CriticEnsemble acting has never felt so clean and unencumbered.
06/05/01
All of the performances are painfully human.
05/10/01
May be the best Dogme95 film yet.
06/06/01
A compelling drama of survival with several very surprising twists.
05/10/01
May seem self-consciously arty, but in the playing it grabs us early and doesn't let go.
08/20/01
Not one of these people is anyone you would want to spend time with, let alone perform alongside.
01/01/00
Sinks under the weight of its ever more inescapably apparent contrivance.
06/15/01
Top CriticLevring achieves a rich, color-saturated look at his exotic location of Kolmanskop, Namibia which is truly the star of his film
06/08/01
An intellectual treat in the desert of Hollywood's summer fare.
01/01/00
The real problem is the way the story tries so hard to incorporate Shakespearean themes.
12/06/05
Despite astonishing camera work and editing, it just gets duller and duller even as the story is supposedly heating up.
12/10/01
The more you appreciate what they're trying to do, the more you like it.
05/18/01
Top CriticThe King is Alive stands as a successful cinematic experiment and a gripping -- though a little too long -- study of humanity's most primitive instincts.
05/17/01
Top CriticYou can take The King Is Alive as a bold gamble or a pretentious folly. No, take it as a pretentious folly.
06/15/01
A startlingly visceral film.
05/23/01
The performances Levring gets from his international cast are almost strong enough to distract you from his failure to develop any of the grand themes so self-consciously set-up by the choice of King Lear.
05/11/01
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