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avg. user rating (1-10): 10
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122 minutes
UK/USA (1998)
PG
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SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE FILM REVIEW |
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Shakespeare In Love is a cleverly scripted reworking of a period comedy. The problem with the energetic portrait of the London theatre world of the 16th century is that it is so busy compensating for the fast-paced wit (care of writers Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman) with physicality that one can almost feel the five producers steering it (accurately as it turned out) towards popular appeal.
Despite how overwrought the whole affair may be, there's fun to be had in the anachronistic activities of the characters and the cameos and supporting roles (Dench as Queen Liz, Affleck as a flamboyantly vain actor, Firth as Viola's scheming betrothed).
Golden statuettes went to assorted thesps as Hollywood showed how impressed it is by sumptuous respectability. Oddly, Fiennes, dashingly portraying the enamoured Shakespeare, was left out.
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