Brilliant mix of love story, comedy and pleasant excitement

Rating: 9/10 (22 March 1999)

This brilliant film, Shakespeare in Love, is loaded with wittiness and comic circumstances. With an excellent script this excellent cast of actors gives us a great entertainment, ..as good as it gets, for a movie. Gwyneth Paltrow is simply wonderful, so enthusiastic and honest in her interpretation of a theater lover who has little control over her destiny and who wouldn't be impressed by Joseph Fiennes fervor as the young Shakespeare, falling hopelessly in love at a time when his flow of writing is blocked. Geoffrey Rush (as the theater director) and Judi Dench (as Queen Elizabeth) are simply unforgettable. A must to see. My score is 9.0