I love how we get to see the scene where Polonius instructs Reynaldo (played by Gérard Depardieu) to follow Laertes to Paris to spy on him- his own son! To spy on him, and to slander him to ferret out any confidences of Laertes’ presumed perfidies and infidelities. Kate Winslet was serviceable as Ophelia, but I have a friend who argues Helena Bonham Carter’s Ophelia was more believable, more pitiable, when the death of her father drives her mad in the Franco Zeffirelli version (the one that starred Mel Gibson). I love it because I’m a fan of Branagh’s work and it’s the whole play, which is almost never done.
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