Portraying the looming presence of band mastermind Robert Fripp and his peculiar and demanding personality, this is a film recording the relentless suffering and fleeting glory of playing in the world's most demanding rock band: King Crimson.
“In the Court of the Crimson King” explores the unique creative environment of the band, one in which freedom and responsibility conspire to place extraordinary demands on the band's members - only alleviated by the applause of an audience whose adoration threatens to make their lives even harder. It's a rewarding and perilous space in which the extraordinary is possible, nothing is certain, and not everyone survives intact. Contains extraordinary music, complex time signatures, meditations on mortality, bad jokes.