If you loved King Lear, try Iris
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Richard Eyre, and they both carry the gut punch mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to King Lear, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Iris is
Here's a film that wants to do for Alzheimer's what Philadelphia did for AIDS. It recounts the marriage of novelist Iris Murdoch, showing her intellectual pomp in youth and decline into dementia. It might be moving, if you've never seen another movie.

