Lord of the Flies
In the hands of the experimental theater...
In the hands of the experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel about the primitivism lurking beneath civilisation becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of the Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' ids.