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Love's Labour's Lost. - Review - movie review
Interview, June, 2000 by Graham Fuller
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Branagh's riskiest Shakespeare adaptation yet is a musical set in 1930s "Oxbridge," where the student king and his fellow abstainers from women fail to resist the charms of the visiting French princess (Alicia Silverstone) and her ladies-in-waiting. The Gershwin, Porter, Kern, and Berlin songs that--along with breezy mock newsreel footage--replace two-thirds of Shakespeare's text are delightfully rendered, but the dancing is ropey, the comedy sequences occasionally risible, and the compositions are full of gaping holes. It's hard, though, to dislike a movie so patently borne along by a good-natured desire to entertain.
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