Film Club: King Lear (Richard Eyre, 2018)
Details
From September 2021, meetings are held every third MONDAY (due to Easter this one is being held on Tuesday) of the month at the Two Chairmen, 39 Dartmouth Street, SW1H 9BP, at 7 pm. After the film there is a brief discussion about the issues raised.
King Lear (plot summary from Wikipedia)
Set in an alternative universe, 21st-century, highly militarised London, the sovereign King Lear calls his family together one evening in order for him to announce the division of his kingdom among his three daughters. The two elder daughters, Regan and Goneril, make open statements about their allegiance to and love for their father and receive each a share of the kingdom. The king's youngest daughter Cordelia, however, finds the act of making such a verbal statement superficial and declines to make a comparable declaration. As a result, she is refused her share of the inheritance, which is now entirely divided between her two elder sisters, and is left to her own devices to survive.
Goneril later accuses the retired King Lear of dotage. Regan accuses the king's retinue of being riotous.