The King and the Clown
Forbidden desire, sumptuous tragedy.
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12/29/2005Runtime
121 minsOverview
Two clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.
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A darkly sumptuous dance between two performers and the mercurial king they must seduce to survive, where wit becomes a weapon and intimacy becomes danger. The film moves between sharp comedy and suffocating psychological pressure, trailing a love story through the margins of an absolute monarch's whims.
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