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To say that the film’s acting is superb is to undermine the very nature of the acting on display. Suffice it to say, of all the films in all the collections in all the world, Branagh’s Hamlet walked into my heart and nestled there, warmed by the very veins in my chest. Hamlet, therefore, is that rare film that not only transmutes the Bard’s work into an artifact of the modern age, but also proves that the scrawl from Avon is perhaps the finest collection of literature gifted to the English language. There is no other film-perhaps no other performance-that more perfectly encapsulates Kenneth Branagh’s artistic vision than his 1996 opus Hamlet.Over the course of approximately 4,000 lines of speech and clocking in at 242 glorious minutes-the approximate runtime of Shakespeare’s play-Branagh captures the attention of his audience, and convinces us that we are witnessing the finest adaptation of any of Shakespeare’s collected works. May flights of angels sing thee all to thy rest. This is a review of my favourite film: Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 adaptation of Hamlet.Īs I close my eyes and head to sleep-perchance to dream once again of The Ontarion-I wish the readers of this august and famous newspaper a good night.
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HAMLET 1996 MOVIE
This review-my proverbial curtain call-is ostensibly the last movie I will ever review for The Ontarion. Since then, I’ve reviewed exactly 78 films almost every single week-taking few, but notable hiatuses. I began this column- “The Weekly Scene”-in January 2014, under the guidance of former Arts and Culture Editor Emily Jones. My name is Sameer Chhabra and I was, in a completely unofficial capacity, The Ontarion’s chief film critic. 4 stunning-adaptations-of-Shakespeare’s-finest out of 4