Shakespeare's passion reinvented!

Rating: 10/10 (25 May 1999)

When we read Shakespeare in school, I was never able to find the enthusiasm his works aroused in the Elizabethan England. This film has captured it!
As a German I might have missed a word now and then, but many of the dialogues were easy to recognize from various plays, and this time they did not seem outdated, but brilliant, not over-exaggerated, but genuinely passionate and beautiful. This film has restored Shakespeare's fame for another millennium to come.
And it is terrifically comical, too, and JudiDench as the Queen is plainly magnificent.