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A Distinguished Company Breathes Life Into Shakespeare’s Lusty Age of FALSTAFF
A Distinguished Company Breathes Life Into Shakespeare’s Lusty Age of...
Comedy, Drama, History - 1965
7.8
96%
94
The culmination of Orson Welles’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare’s robustly funny and ultimately tragic antihero, Sir John Falstaff; the often soused friend of King Henry IV’s wayward son Prince Hal. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
115 min
Release date:
16 Mar 1965
Country:
ES, CH
Languages:
English, German, Spanish
Budget:
$800,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award3 wins & 2 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Evidently Mr. Welles's reading of Falstaff ranges between a farcical concept of him and a mawkish, sentimental attitude.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
fresh:
Here is a film to treasure.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
6 Apr 2007
fresh:
A personal viewpoint, it mixes the grotesque, bawdy, comic and heroic, and does have a melancholy under its carousing and battles.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
18 Jun 2008
fresh:
It takes large latent talent to tell the audience that you know that what you're doing isn't worth doing and still do it better than anyone else in the movie.
– Pauline Kael,
The New Republic,
30 Aug 2012
fresh:
Of all the movies Welles made, it may offer the most clues to his imposing pachyderm soul.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Village Voice,
13 Jan 2015
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