The older he gets (he’s now 23), the more Timothée Chalemet looks like a svelte, neurasthenic-rock-star version of Daniel Day-Lewis. In “The King,” a sprawling but intimate royal-…
still evokes the image of a man of the world, usually of some years, wearing a crown. The notion of casting a boy wonder like Chalamet as Henry V feels like a novelty. The reality, of course, is that in the early 15th century, when “The King” is set, people didn’t live very long.
Hal, the wayward prince, is toxically estranged from his father, played by Ben Mendelsohn as a glowering hippie tyrant addicted to war. The older Henry wants Scotland and Wales to knuckle under, but his quest for dominion is nearing its end, because he’s dying. He summons Hal to the court and announces that even though the gangly prince is his oldest son, Hal will not be succeeding him on the throne.
I haven’t, thus far, been much of a fan of David Michôt as a director . But he has staged “The King” with a gloomy grandeur that sweeps you up. It helps that the script, cowritten by Michôt and Joel Edgerton, sounds like Shakespeare with the thorny verbal knots combed out of it. Henry is, of course, surrounded by schemers and backstabbers, but the treachery isn’t telegraphed.
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