2022 · comedy · drama · history
The Lost King
Directed by Stephen Frears1h 48m2022
An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.
Our read: The Lost King (2022) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · history entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
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