William Golding

In The Inheritors, William Golding masterfully reimagines the prehistoric world, crafting a deeply moving narrative about the fragile balance between innocence and ambition, survival and destruction. The story unfolds through the perspective of a small Neanderthal tribe, portrayed as gentle, empathetic beings who live in harmony with their environment. Their simple lives are upended with the arrival of a new species: Homo sapiens. The Homo sapiens,...

In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization 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. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its...