As You Like It
2006
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
As You Like It
2006
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot summary
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.
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What I love about Kenneth Branagh's rendition of Shakespeare is that he doesn't just know the lines - he understands the language in which it was written. I've seen people say that his delivery is "casual". I think of it more as natural. Shakespeare is so often delivered in that faux-epic, arm reaching out into infinity shtick that is painful to watch, and it's incorrectly taught us that the language of Shakespeare is intended to be lofty and elevated. Nothing could be further from the truth. He wrote for the people, and in the language of the day. Kenneth understands that and gives us a story, not just ponderously delivered poetic speech.
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Wreybies... This guy gets it.