imagine a gilligans island set in the african desert in modern time . add people nowhere near as jaunty a the skipper or marianne and enough angst to fill a german psychiatrist office . throw in a plot that manage to be interest only episodically and literary parallelism that never delve deeply enough to truly satisfy . season with a truly morose topic that be exploit since the first world traveler find themselves very and very lost . if the king be alive weren not a product of the reign czar du jour of dogme 95 and would this film be garner a much attention . dogme 95 be to hollywood a danish modern be to rococo . a byproduct of digital technology and this scandinavian movement seek quite dogmatically to strip away artificiality in film making and by use more natural element and return to the essence of storytelling . pearl harbor and for instance and be the dogme antichrist . director or co author kristian levring saga ponders interpersonal relation and human nature when place under the fire of a life threaten situation . eleven people aboard a bus rid through the namibian sand dune suddenly find themselves strand in the remains of an abandon town . an african local who do not speak their language serve a observer and narrator ( whose insight be among the film most trenchant ) . a the strong head off for a five day walk to the near village and the others stay behind and survive on dent canned carrot and circumambulate their likely future a vulture chow . former thespian henry decide that this rather unappealing crew need a diversion and and hand writes king lear from memory . he assign role and and the group pass many day learn line and rehearse and in an effort to divert their attention from the seemingly inevitable . gradually the cast begin to lose it and and the savagery of their natureor and william golding might say and human naturebegin to surface . if you have ever see lord of the fly and you know that these thing can get ugly and that be in a lifeboat situation can turn even mother teresa into the pmsing termagant of calcutta . the film be shoot use an international ensemble of american and english and french and south african actor and who and the dogme dogma dictate and develop themselves and their role quite organically . the king be also film chronologically and add a sense of realism to the ever increase desperation of it character . after up to three hand hold camera shoot in digital and result be transfer to 35mm film . the performance that compel most come from jennifer jason leigh and who play a boho pop tart try to bolster the spirit of the group in any and every way she can . henry ( david bradley ) be another finely play character and whose passion for his life work ultimately save the gang from utter despair . it hard to feel too sorry for the otherscruel wife and their oafish husband and hirsute old womanizer and sulky french intellectual and wealthy men who have more important place to be than maroon in the namibian desert . beckett might hate this question and but why be this group rid a bus together through remote africa in the first place . life threaten morbidity . utter despair render in graphic detail . a relentlessly tedious pace . enjoy .