The dark and brooding world inhabited by King Lear and his three daughters must rank as one of the greatest works of invention in the Shakespearean canon. Brian Blessed directs and stars in this production. Blessed is magn... more »ificent in the title role in this powerful new cinema version of the bard's great tragic work. In Shakespeare's powerful tragedy filmed on location in England, the film creates a menacing medieval world, with images of the full moon, Stonehenge-like stone slabs, naked flames, white-robed priests and sharp blades proliferating. Directed by Tony Rotherham, Blessed is a marvelous Lear, simultaneously powerful and frail.« less