--- title: Review: Timothée Chalamet Is a Bad Boy Monarch in The King description: David Michôd’s retelling of the Henriad plays, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, honors a classic story and opens its grandeur to a new audience. canonical: https://time.com/5667202/the-king-venice-review-timothee-chalamet/ author: Stephanie Zacharek article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-03T14:20:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T21:48:33.000Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Timothée Chalamet’s Bad-Boy Monarch in The King Isn’t For Shakespeare Purists—He’s For All of Us og:description: David Michôd’s retelling of the Henriad plays, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, honors a classic story and opens its grandeur to a new audience og:url: https://time.com/5667202/the-king-venice-review-timothee-chalamet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt92998fab2085be0a/698a0246b21a9c4aaa5024a9/king_rec709_stills_r3_1.8.1r2-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Timothée Chalamet in 'The King' og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Timothée Chalamet’s Bad-Boy Monarch in The King Isn’t For Shakespeare Purists—He’s For All of Us twitter:description: David Michôd’s retelling of the Henriad plays, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, honors a classic story and opens its grandeur to a new audience twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt92998fab2085be0a/698a0246b21a9c4aaa5024a9/king_rec709_stills_r3_1.8.1r2-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Timothée Chalamet’s Bad-Boy Monarch in _The King_ Isn’t For Shakespeare Purists—He’s For All of Us > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Stephanie Zacharek](https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/)  ## Stephanie Zacharek Film Critic Updated: Dec 12, 2023 9:48 PM UTCPublished: Sep 3, 2019 2:20 PM UTC  Timothée Chalamet in 'The King' Timothée Chalamet in 'The King'Netflix—Netflix  by [Stephanie Zacharek](https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/)  ## Stephanie Zacharek Film Critic Updated: Dec 12, 2023 9:48 PM UTCPublished: Sep 3, 2019 2:20 PM UTC In David Michôd’s _The King,_ our first glimpse of Timothée Chalamet as Prince Hal, future king of England, is as a youthful miscreant passed out on a bed, his hair a rock-star tousle on the pillow, his feet dirty from a night of carousing, or maybe from just living in the early 15th century. He’s the bad boy who _will_ be king, when he eventually rolls out of bed. And he’s proof of the enduring nature of Shakespeare, even in a picture that never references the name of the world’s most famous playwright. _The King_—playing out of competition here at the Venice Film Festival and produced for Netflix—doesn’t cite the _Henriad_ plays as its source material, and it doesn’t use Shakespeare’s language or strictly follow every character arc. But it’s a riff that makes an often-told story feel vital and fresh. In its vibe, it’s not [Shakespeare](https://time.com/4304578/shakespeare-english-langugae-400th-anniversary-death/) for purists, it’s Shakespeare for people—the original audience all along. When we first meet him, Chalamet’s Prince Hal is heir to the throne of his father, the ailing Henry IV (Ben Mendelsohn), puffy and listless in his stripey dressing gown. Hal has zero interest in ruling a country. He’s philosophically opposed to anything so morally complicated, and he’d rather carouse with his pal, the jolly yet secretly pensive Falstaff ([Joel Edgerton](https://time.com/5434329/lucas-hedges-boy-erased-review/)), a former knight who now spends his time drinking and committing petty acts of thievery to finance his partying. Fate intervenes, and Hal must step into the role of king. His Strokes-style haircut is shorn into a tidy little bowl shape, presumably so that oh-so-heavy crown will fit better. (Michôd condenses the coronation into a neat bit of shorthand, showing Hal, now Henry, from the knees down, striding forth in his red velvet coronation robe—still with the bare feet.) The young king, busy with new toys, forsakes Falstaff for a time, fully earning his friend’s resentment, though their eventual reconciliation will shift the course of his reign. _The King,_ written by Michôd and Edgerton, zips along—it never feels like a slog, though it still has a satisfyingly hefty dramatic weight. Michôd dramatizes the muddy, bloody battle at Agincourt with some thoughtful visual brush strokes: At one point we see, from above, a major character in the center of a scrum of enemy knights, their helmets vibrating like muddy silver molecules. And he knows how to fold in a few comic touches without breaking the mood: Robert Pattinson shows up as a haughty Dauphin, leering at our young King Hal through a haze of condescension. “I enjoy to speak English,” he assures his nemesis in a supercilious purr. “It is simple and ugly.” Then there’s Chalamet, who’s just about [everybody’s _Tiger Beat_ crush](https://time.com/5092640/timothee-chalamet-golden-globes-2018/) these days. But if anyone remains unconvinced that he’s a fine actor as well, _The King_ might do the trick: His eyes have a dark, hypnotic solemnity, as if he’s weighing every word he hears for secret meaning—when you’re a king, you must know who your friends are, although, as Falstaff grouchily reminds him, “A king has no friends; only followers and foe.” But as winsomely solemn as Chalamet is, it’s Edgerton’s Falstaff who won my heart. There will never be a greater movie Falstaff than Orson Welles, the star and brightly burning center of his own 1965 _Chimes at Midnight._ But Edgerton puts a mindful spin on the character. The scowl he wears behind his scruffy beard can have any one of multiple meanings, and sometimes a few mixed together. He’s grouchy and wary and tender, a sozzled hedonist who seems to be out only for himself, but who is actually the human equivalent of a rough ceramic pitcher, ready to pour out generosity where it’s needed. With _The King,_ Michôd (the director behind _Animal Kingdom_ and _The Rover),_ has made a fine big-screen entertainment that most people will probably watch at home, on a Netflix-sized rectangle. But that doesn’t diminish what he and Edgerton have pulled off. Their retelling honors a classic story and opens its grandeur to a new audience—even as it gives an elbow-poke to those who have seen it all before, or who only think they have. **Correction, Sept. 3** _The original version of this story misstated the status of_ The King _at the Venice Film Festival. 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