What does Hollywood think about "genius"?

Rating: 3/10 (30 May 2001)

This question is answered with all the clarity and vulgarity we are used to see in contemporary mainstream cinema: The genius is something that comes directly from the intestines, that is to say the stronger this organ the stronger the "muse". Translation between both levels is pretty direct: the poet transfers his feelings in verses, without any considerable modification, and the better we know the life the better we understand the work. Too bad that this movie is historically so very unprecise, and that it omits the (if we are talking about Shakespeare's "love"!) crucial fact of the master's bisexuality. - Other circumstances as Fiennes' completely exaggerated play and the absence of any true humor make this opus one of the poorest we've seen in the last five year's.