England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.
Cinematography
Battle of Agincourt: mud, blood, and claustrophobic chaos.
Acting
Chalamet's transformation from wasted boy to hollowed king.
Production
Armor you can practically smell through the screen.
Director
David Michôd
Timothée Chalamet
Hal
Joel Edgerton
Falstaff
Sean Harris
William
Tom Glynn-Carney
Hotspur
Lily-Rose Depp
Catherine
Thomasin McKenzie
Philippa, Queen of Denmark
Robert Pattinson
The Dauphin
Ben Mendelsohn
King Henry IV
Andrew Havill
Archbishop of Canterbury
Dean-Charles Chapman
Thomas
Steven Elder
Dorset
Edward Ashley
Cambridge
Tara Fitzgerald
Hooper
Tom Fisher
Northumberland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The mud in Agincourt was so authentic that extras kept slipping and injuring themselves—Michôd kept some of the real stumbles.
This adapts Shakespeare's Henriad but strips the iambic pentameter, making Hal's arc feel more like a prestige TV antihero than Elizabethan tragedy.
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