Thursday, August 14, 2008

Hamlet (1996)

I just saw Kenneth Branagh's film Hamlet once again, and it holds up.

I thought Derek Jacobi's Claudius was brilliant and made the usurper a truly central character.

And having seen Branagh first as Hamlet and then (in the DVD intro) as himself, I was amazed by the magic power he has to turn his ordinary English self into such eye-rivetting characters.

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