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Dominican Rep. Love's Labour's Lost
- Original title
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Year
- 2000
- Running time
- 93 min.
- Country
United Kingdom- Director
- Screenwriter
- Kenneth Branagh. Theater: William Shakespeare
- Cast
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Kenneth Branagh
Nathan Lane
Adrian Lester
Matthew Lillard
Natascha McElhone
Alessandro Nivola
Alicia Silverstone
Timothy Spall
Geraldine McEwan
Emily Mortimer
Richard Briers- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Romance. Musical | Romantic Drama
- Movie Groups
- Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost
- Synopsis
- Kenneth Branagh's musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy sets the action in the last few days before the start of World War II. In the fictional kingdom of Navarre, King Ferdinand (Alessandro Nivola) and three chums take vow to study rigorously and avoid women for three years. Their vow is immediately tested with the surprise visit of the Princess of France (Alicia Silverstone) with three ladies-in-waiting. Romantic merriment ensues as each of the men fall in love and attempt to woo the ladies without being caught. Branagh's film features musical numbers by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and others performed in the classic style of 1930s MGM musicals.
- Awards
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2000: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Nominated for Best Actor (Lester)
- Critics' reviews
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"Branagh's attempt to meld Shakespeare's densely verbal early comedy with Broadway show tunes fails, thanks to stunt casting, poor singing and dancing, and the incompatibility of the two art forms"
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"The effect is weird but it, actually, kind of works, illuminating both Shakespeare and the artifice of musicals."
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"Labour teeters on the edge of the amateur. Yet it's hard not to root for its moonstruck spirit, or to succumb to the panache of the pastiche."
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"There's not a song I wouldn't hear again with pleasure, or a clip that might not make me smile, but as a whole, it's not much. Like cotton candy, it's better as a concept than as an experience"
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"Filling his movie with bright colors and giddy energy, Branagh has made a labor of love in which the labor is all too apparent."
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"It's like Shakespeare done by the 'Fame' kids."
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"Ken, Ken, Ken, not another Shakespeare, pleeeeeeez"
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