The King Is Alive (2000)
Directed by Kristian Levring
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. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own morality.
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Not surprisingly, the experiment has been most effective in dramas about personal and group erosion: Lars von Trier encouraged inappropriate behavior in ''The Idiots''; Thomas Vinterberg dissected family dysfunction in ''The Celebration.''
The first three filmmakers have delivered their films, The Celebration (Vinterberg), The Idiots (Von Trier), and Mifune (Kragh-Jacobsen), and now the fourth, Levring's The King Is Alive, arrives in theaters.