Richard Eyre's film version of his award-winning Royal National Theatre production of Shakespeare's King Lear, showing in the Performance strand. Starring Ian Holm
After disinheriting the youngest of his three daughters because she refuses to pander to his desire for flattery, King Lear suffers the torments of rage, humiliation and madness at the hands of his two eldest daughters before arriving at a painful self-knowledge. See today's choices.
Andrew Duncan interviews Ian Holm: page 14