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Macbeth
Why this pick
Its austere landscapes, hushed dread, and brutal approach to ambition echo The King's grave mood and stripped-back vision of power.
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MOVIE2019 2h 20m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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For the contemplative side of The King: a young nobleman faces duty, identity, and mortality amid richly textured medieval landscapes and deliberate pacing.
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A sharper, dialogue-led royal chamber drama about succession and family warfare, driven by the same fascination with authority as an unstable performance.
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Its filthy Civil War setting and increasingly uneasy psychological pressure offer a stranger, more hallucinatory variation on The King's raw historical atmosphere.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A young Henry V assumes the throne after his brother is killed in battle, but he ascends to power in a fraught time when the empire is in chaos and is in desperate need of a strong hand.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Timothée Chalamet
Henry V
Lily-Rose Depp
Catherine
Joel Edgerton
Sir John Falstaff
Robert Pattinson
Louis, the Dauphin of France
Tom Lawrence
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Tom Glynn-Carney
Hotspur
Thomasin McKenzie
Philippa
Roderick Hill
Cloaked Man