Cried and Laughed

Rating: Null/10 (19 February 1999)

You are there! Will gets inspired, and we get the benefit. Shakespeare In Love will give you a new slant on Romeo and Juliet - especially if you appreciate the play in all its seriousness. Watch film makers and actors paying homage to the Bard by inventing a reality that "coulda been." Feel the words like arrows to the heart (and see the actors know and believe that they are in the presence of great creation). Put in a time and place where anything is possible, Will Shakespeare rushes freshly inked pages of dialog to actors waiting to see what happens scene by scene. The fact that we know the play by heart is forgotten as we all become new, again and again, in love.