Henry IV
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Sombre, measured, measured drama / pirandello, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.
Our read · Henry IV (1984) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · pirandello · madness entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Henry IV
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