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THE LOST KING – Review by Liz Braun

March 18, 2023March 19, 2023 Liz Braun King Richard III, Mark Addy, Philippa Langley, Richard III Society, Richard III: The King In The Carpark, sally hawkins, stephen frears, Steve Coogan, The Lost King, truth-based

Stephen Frears’ The Lost King is a tale of obsession and pursuit. It’s about one woman’s relentless quest to find the remains of a monarch dead and missing for 500 years, but there’s no whiff of dusty archives about it. Sally Hawkins, extraordinary as always, stars as the tenacious Phillipa Langley. who undertakes research based on her reading about Richard III, who got a bad rap (Shakespeare didn’t help) that has long been disputed. The movie includes much talk about how lies eventually begin to look like the truth, so it’s not as if The Lost King is removed from current political discourse.

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THE LOST KING (TIFF 2022) – Review by Cate Marquis

October 12, 2022October 13, 2022 Cate Marquis Philippa Langley, Richard III, sally hawkins, stephen frears, Steve Coogan, The Lost King, TIFF 2022, toronto international film festival, truth-based

Stephen Frears’ true story-inspired comedy-drama The Lost King is a charmer with a thoughtful underdog theme, starring the wonderful Sally Hawkins as an amateur historian who locates the long-lost grave of King Richard III, the last Plantagenet king. The grave’s location had eluded professionals for centuries. The discovery made headlines around the world, but even better, was that the person who pulled off this discovery, Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins), was an ordinary middle-aged woman who turned amateur historian – or maybe history detective is more apt – after seeing a production of Shakespeare’s play.