Saturday, January 2, 2010

A Midwinter's Tale

w/d Kenneth Branagh

This was a wonderfully literate piece on the efforts of a ragtag group of British thespians who struggle to stage Hamlet in a remote village. The players were uniformly excellent. The pacing, editing, humor all stood out.

We got to know these people in quickly-sketched scenes that seemed to race by but by the end I felt I knew them well enough that I cared about their lives and really hated to see them go.

Kudos to KB for this one. He is a national (British) treasure.

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