The King Is Alive

2000
R
1h 50m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

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Drama

When a bus breaks down in the desert, the passengers decide to stage "King Lear."When a bus breaks down in the desert, the passengers decide to stage "King Lear."When a bus breaks down in the desert, the passengers decide to stage "King Lear."

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

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Awards
- 3 wins & 4 nominations total

Videos4

Clip 1:08

I Have To Get Home

Clip 1:44

Practicing Your Lines: Scene

Clip 0:59

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The Quickie

Storyline

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Trivia
This is the fourth film to be made according to the Dogme 95 rules. The Dogme 95 was founded by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen and Kristian Levring.

Crazy credits
In Memoriam Brion James

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Mummy Returns/Time and Tide/Town & Country/With a Friend Like Harry... (2001)

Soundtracks
Sly Diva
Written by Cliff Hewitt (as C. Hewitt)
Courtesy of Monsoon Music

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Review

Featured review

King is Alive is hattest movie alive

Wow. I was speechless after seeing this movie for the first time (a feeling I still experience even after almost a dozen viewings). I've never seen such an eloquent, spellbinding, and above all logical, presnetation of King Lear. Truly the best setting for such a play is by a broken down bus in a desert.

The first thing that struck me about the film was the unsurpassed clarity of the footage. Even in dark scenes around the campfire everyone's face is perfectly in focus and the viewer feels he is with this poor unfortunate bus travelers in where ever it was they got stuck. The well placed cut aways of the lost traveler in the desert enhance the story-telling experience.

Sike, this movie sunks.