The King (2019)
Genre: Biography / Drama
Duration: 140 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / Hungary / United States / Australia
Directed by: David Michôd
Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton and Robert Pattinson
IMDb score:
7,3 (176.073)
Releasedate: 11 October 2019
The King plot
"All hail."
Early 15th century. Hal, a headstrong prince, ascends the English throne after his father's death. This is happening as the country prepares for war with France. Accompanied by his friend, Falstaff, Hal must survive amid palace intrigue, war and chaos.
Actors and actresses
Falstaff
William
Hotspur
Catherine
Philippa, Queen of Denmark
The Dauphin
King Henry IV
Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas
Reviews & comments
parcivalis
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- 298 messages
- 353 votes
Not a bad boring movie. Has nothing to offer that you haven't seen 100x in other movies. The beautiful images cannot really save the slow narrative style and the same plot development. Neither does the acting. The French are presented as a bunch of idiots in the film but hey! history shows a bunch of up-and-down idiots who lost blow after blow because they thought it was more important to be beautiful on horseback than to take foot soldiers into their armies. For at least a century the English plundered through France without really being put in the way. In fact, sometimes the French nobility happily joined in. That were the days!
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Ummmagummma
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- 133 messages
- 115 votes
Don't expect a Hollywood spectacle. No false heroism.
The film stays very true to the Shakespearean narrative style, maybe even long-winded here and there, but also takes the time to build up the story well to the climax.
Everything feels understated, which is refreshing. The dialogues are good but unadorned, the acting is fine, the fights are raw and feel unstyled.
Good movie, but not for people with short tension.
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eRCee
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- 13449 messages
- 1981 votes
It is clear that there is a well-written drama behind this, so that the focus is not so much on medieval fighting but more on the importance of loyalty and friendship. The closing image of the film is therefore one of the strongest moments of The king: it forms a climax of the theme, while the moment itself is very simple and modest. You don't see something like this very often. Chalamet is an interesting king to watch. That French dauphin is unfortunately excruciatingly theatrical and, as is often the case in these kinds of films, the scale and epic content of everything to do with war and combat is overstated (in this case especially the fleet and those catapults). You can also experience the French perspective of the battle of Azincourt in Thea Beckman and her youth novel Give me space!.
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