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Jul 3, 2000 · US backers and an international cast are not typical traits of the Dogme 95 school of film-making, but the makers of Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive stayed true to the "back-to-basics"...
Kristian Levring, Denmark, 2000. A group of tourists are stranded in the Namibian desert when their bus loses its way and runs out of fuel. Canned food and dew keep the tourists alive, but they are helplessly entrapped, completely cut off from the rest of the world.
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May 18, 2001 · “The King Is Alive” is the latest of the Dogma 95 movies, so-called because of a “vow of chastity” signed by the four Danish directors Kristian Levring (who directed this one), Thomas Vinterberg (“Celebration”), Soren Kragh-Jacoben (“Mifune“) and Lars Von Trier (“The Idiots”).
cinema has been newly enriched by The King Is Alive, a Dogma 95 production crafted by Kristian Levring, one of the founders of the Danish movement. Unfortunately the film, despite its great merits, is imperiled by the shadow of the Dogma man-ifesto.
Sep 10, 2012 · Nothing enormously original, then, as fevers and tensions rise and hopes sink - Levring wisely doesn't push the Lear parallels too far - but it's all very watchable, thanks to excellent ...
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play.
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Jan 17, 2019 · Through Levring and Jensen’s The King Is Alive and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Helms discuss two ways to integrate inference and imagination. The King Is Alive—an appropriation of King Lear—exemplifies a story where inference frames strongly imaginative character building.
