17 September 2011

Who's afraid of the French shewolf?

The Lion in Winter

(1968)
What a genuinely bizarre film, whose conceit is that people in 1183 are blessed/cursed with a thoroughly modern awareness that they're savages living in a dark age. It's mostly a vehicle (excuse might be a more accurate term) for O'Toole and Hepburn to play Albee's George and Martha in medieval drag, and they seem to have lots of fun doing it.

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