(Campanadas a medianoche, a.k.a. Falstaff). Drawn primarily from Henry
IV, Orson Welles’s comic and stirring interpretation of the life and death of
Sir John Falstaff is both acutely personal and faithful to the language and spirit of Shakespeare. Welles plays the canny fool Falstaff as a living emblem of a dying world. His merrie Englande of jostling vulgarity, shared with the fierce and lusty bawd Doll Tearsheet (Moreau), is visually contrasted against the settings of stark majesty from which Henry IV (John Gielgud) uneasily reigns. Prince Hal (Keith Baxter) must choose between these two worlds and their masters in one of Welles’s most moving explorations of loyalty and betrayal. Juliet Clark
Written by Welles, based on plays by William Shakespeare. Photographed by
Edmond Richard. With Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau.
(113 mins, B&W, 35mm)
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