Richard Brody on the ultimate film maudit: Jean Luc-Godard’s “King Lear”: http://nyr.kr/T4APK8
For a younger generation of viewers, for whom the cinema is as crucial and ready a reference as literature, and who may themselves be ready for a cinematic revelation of a work that may in fact have become unfamiliar, Godard’s “King Lear” may be, at the age of twenty-five, extraordinarily timely.