Becket
“An age of rampant lusts, abandon, runaway passions. An age brought bristling to life by two of the most exciting stars of our time!”
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry.
A grand, theatrical clash of titans. This film feels like watching a Shakespearean tragedy unfold, full of weighty pronouncements and simmering resentments. It's a battle of wills between church and state, steeped in historical gravitas and moral complexity.
