William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Frans B @FransB Jan 9 Brilliant adaptation of a masterpiece! Grandeur and splendor abounds. Beautifully brought to screen by Michael Hoffman. Stellar cast impress convincingly in character. Great cinematography and visually stunning. All the elements of and epic tale well wrapped and presented in this shape and form. Highly recommended and you do not even have to be a Shakespeare fan to love it See more Giovana L @Giovana183 Oct 2 Os atores são bonitos, a atuação foi boa, mas a história é chata,nunca li ou vi a história da peça de Shakespeare,e se eu não tivesse procurado a sinopse mais detalhada no Google,eu ficaria perdida total. As coisas estão começam no fio da meada,sem dar explicação nenhuma pra dar um norte,pra o expectador se situar, não são só os amantes de Shakespeare que vão assistir o filme,a mídia cinematográfica também alcança demais pessoas. A trama segue de de forma lenta, o humor é leve,não é pra todos os gostos, eu quase desisti na cena que eles encenam aquela peça durante o casamento dos protagonistas, meu deus que parte sem graça e chata, Além de que o personagem que fez o burro é um traidor mequetrefe, o Puck fez foi revelar a verdadeira aparência dele. Ele foi o único que não recebeu poção do amor então ele traiu a esposa porque quis. See more thiago s @Thiagostone Sep 5 Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são mais ou menos, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more Matthew C @RT69101746 03/25/2025 This original film based on the old play by William Shakespeare brings about a visual view of the old play. After reading the book and now watched the movie, there are themes in this film that make me a little disappointed. My first complaint with the film is the dialogue is not 100% accurate with the book. One thing you'd expect from a book adaptation is accuracy which they do for the most part other than the dialogue. To the things I enjoyed. Christian Bale and the rest of the cast bring a good performance of these characters that would for other actors, be difficult to pull off but they do it well. Examples of this would be the film adaptation of "The Outsiders" book by S.E. Hilton and played in film by Tom Cruise, Matt Damon and others. Other good thoughts I had was the music composed by Simon Boswell really gave a little more interest adding onto the emotions by the characters. Another was the sets felt accurate from the book as you would think of the some imaginary places from the book would be. See more Lillitu D @E.Shosh 12/20/2024 One of my favourite movies, Kevin Kline, Rupert Everett, Michelle Pfeiffer and Stanley Tucci steal every scene and recite Shakespeare with ease. Calista Flockhart bothered me at first but she grows on you. See more David W @Sternhammer 08/25/2023 A fun and well updated version of the play. There are some questionably strange choices in attempting to contemporise this and make it work in cinematic form but they largely work. Production wise this is sumptious to look at and the soundtrack works beautifully. The star studded cast largely cope well with standouts being Kline who is superb as bottom and Stanley Tucci as Puck. All in all its a successful production of the Bards classic, especially as it's not a play that particularly lends itself to this medium. That said I'm not sure Shakespeare purists will be as enamoured and due to the prose itself I doubt it'll convert many who weren't already familiar with the play, so I'm not sure who the target audience for this will actually be. Despite enjoying this myself, it's worth stating that I watched this with my wife who gave up with it about 40 minutes in as the prose simply wasn't for her and the humour simply wasn't to her taste. Never the less it's an attempt to make Shakespeare accessible to the masses and whilst I'm not sure it wholly achieves that aim, it's laudible in its intention and effort. See more Read all reviews

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

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