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- matthias s "The King is Dead!" is a cinematic enigma that defies genre conventions with mixed results. It's a decent movie, but you won't be rushing to recommend it. The film struggles to find its tone, never fully committing to being dark or funny, leaving the audience in a perplexing middle ground.
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The King Is Dead! 2012 1h 46m Comedy Drama Mystery & Thriller List. 100% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 35% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A husband (Dan Wyllie) and wife (Bojana Novakovic) take extreme ...
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- Dan Wyllie
- Rolf de Heer
- Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
The King is Dead! is a deliciously dark genre mash-up, coy and explorative but tight and insular, sprayed with wry laughs and a genuinely foreboding undertone. Full Review | Jul 16, 2012
Jul 9, 2012 · The King Is Dead!: Film Review. Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer, who previously won a special jury prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard, tells a tale of neighborly misadventure that turns...
Jul 12, 2012 · The King Is Dead!: Directed by Rolf de Heer. With Roman Vaculik, Michaela Cantwell, Lily Adey, Nathan Hoare. A young couple buy a house but their neighbor is a drug dealer who originates many troubles so they create a plan to move him out.
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- Comedy, Drama, Thriller
- Rolf de Heer
- 2012-07-12
The King Is Dead is a quirky, unpredictable and edgy black urban comedy set in the leafy streets of an Adelaide suburb. Mild mannered science teacher Max (Dan Wyllie) and his accountant wife Therese (Bojana Novakovic) buy their dream home, a bungalow in an inner suburb, and move in.
Jul 9, 2012 · A combo of dark suburban drama, absurdist social comedy and violent crime thriller, “The King Is Dead!” reps a radical change of pace for Aussie arthouse helmer Rolf de Heer (“Ten Canoes”).
Jul 6, 2012 · An outwardly light-hearted work from a director famed for confrontational subject matter, The King Is Dead! is as curious as anything de Heer has done. It's his first film to be shot digitally and one of the few not in widescreen.
