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Critics Consensus: Though the plot feels rather contrived, the ensemble acting in this Dogme 95 film is good.
Critic Consensus: Though the plot feels rather contrived, the ensemble acting in this Dogme 95 film is good.
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The King is Alive interweaves the madness, the foolhardiness, the greed and the ferocity of human nature that Shakespeare depicted so brilliantly in Lear back in 1606, and shatters us again and again with its insights made refreshed.
:ags in the middle, growing more interesting -- if hardly more original -- only as the situation deteriorates.
It's all very watchable, thanks to excellent performances all around...
Levring's film isn't nearly as smart or original as he seems to think it is.
It doesn't escape its own ascetic pretensions.
Pulsing with color and movement in a vast, dune filled landscape, this is a whole new way of using a now familiar bag of tricks.
The endless vistas of sand that surround the forlorn settlement embody the void at the heart of its abandoned, terrified characters.
I spent much of the movie marvelling about how the form and style of the Dogme film fit perfectly into the story, and how none of the players seemed like they were pretending, even when they were being theatrical.
Here is a small masterpiece about the erosion of civilized egos by the elements.
The real problem is the way the story tries so hard to incorporate Shakespearean themes.
Even for a Dogma 95 movie, this one is unusual because it features a remote, exotic setting and a Shakepearean subtext.
About as far from a Shakespearean stage but as close to Shakespearean essence as it can be.
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