![]() Well Branagh went anywhere and everywhere his professional desires led him. The man was just 36 when he directed and starred in a star-studded, four-hour version of Hamlet that was critically lauded. He started at the top of the high art food chain with Shakespeare and has been munching his way down the ladder ever since. He’s starred in and directed movies (more often than not at the same time) spanning almost every genre you could think of. There hasn’t been a Shakespearean adaptor working on that cinematic scale since – ask any high school English teacher.īut here’s the thing (or as Shakespeare would say: “Ay, there’s the rub”): Branagh can’t be put in a box. His grasp of Shakespearean language is at once extremely sophisticated and palatable to the masses: watch Much Ado About Nothing, Othello or Henry V to remind yourself of just how impressive he is. ![]() Back in the 90s he was an unforgettable leading man, hailed as the next Laurence Olivier or Derek Jacobi, churning out critically acclaimed stage-to-screen Shakespeare adaptations and earning himself Academy award nominations left and right. Branagh is, in a word, supreme, in this movie.
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