The King (2017)
Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki's new film takes the King's 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind. In this groundbreaking film, Jarecki paints a visionary portrait of the state of the American Dream and a penetrating look at how the hell we got here. A diverse cast of Americans, both famous and non, join the journey.
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August 8, 1939 in Elmira, New York, USA
8 September 1941, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
15 January 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
7 February 1978, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
March 31, 1978 in Peru
13 May 1960, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
3 April 1961, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
23 May 1950, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
20 September 1968, Jackson, Tennessee, USA
26 December 1921, New York City, New York, USA
30 January 1882, Hyde Park, New York, USA
12 December 1915, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
15 June 1945, Gaffney, South Carolina, USA
17 January 1942, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
14 June 1946, New York City, New York, USA
24 May 1955, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
15 December 1943, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
September 05, 2018
It's all rather random, but never dull.
September 05, 2018
Jarecki's road-trip never reaches answers or a destination, but it's a curiously diverting ride.
August 27, 2018
The King is a visual essay - it proposes a thesis, then builds a convincing argument, bouncing between Presley's life and the state of the nation.
October 10, 2018
A compelling portrait of Elvis Presley that contemplates what he meant to America and its ever-evolving dream.
July 12, 2018
At its best, "The King" is a fever dream of American glory and American weirdness - between which there can be an even thinner line than the one separating love from hate.
October 11, 2018
Elvis is clearly used as a metaphor by Jarecki. Undeniably progressive in his approach and his politics, the filmmaker still crafts a compelling portrait that reaches beyond simply ideology.
June 28, 2018
With an insistence that borders almost comically on obsession, [director Eugene Jarecki] forces the singer's life into a larger theory of national decline-the American dream is dead, and Elvis is the emblem of its passing.
July 13, 2018
Provocative and at times unwieldy, The King is something of a stoned CNN Special Report on wheels.
October 09, 2018
Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls-Royce serves as a metaphor for what 's wrong with this country in two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki's new documentary.
July 12, 2018
Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki does something rather unusual with The King, which becomes something extraordinary and insightful.
June 26, 2018
...the movie does so in painfully simplistic terms, with encyclopedia-style snippets of history, authentically pained but insubstantial musings on "how we got here," and an odd reliance on the comments of celebrities who lack any Presley connection...
July 27, 2018
The insistence may inspire a furrowed brow here, a rolled eye there, and a shaken fist or knowing nod over yonder, but there's enough earnest comment and good music to make the effort worth seeing and chewing over.
