An original adaptation, full of novel ideas, brilliantly scored, and above all brilliant in its cinematography. The performances, however, are unengaging. And the text is severely & eccentrically abridged (it isn’t fidelity to the play that stretches the running time past two hours). The Facets subtitles are crap -- mistimed, misspelled, or just missing. The Kozinstev Lear is better.