Movies
August, 1985
It has the same title as Shakespeare's classic, but Henry IV (Orion Classics) is a relatively modern drama about a madman who appears to believe he's an 11th Century German emperor. Luigi Pirandello wrote the play in 1922, and Marco Bellocchio's freely adapted film version stars Marcello Mastroianni opposite ever-exquisite Claudia Cardinale, as the aristocratic beauty he loves and loses. That may be all you need to know about the plot, a typically Pirandellian conundrum debating the nature of tr...
