Audience Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5017239191213
Format: PAL
Label: Entertainment in Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Entertainment in Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: October 29, 2001
Running Time: 128 minutes
Studio: Entertainment in Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 25, 1996

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Rating: - Excellent, lively and amusing adaptation of the play
I love this film! Shakespeare converted well into film form is a delight (see Branagh's 'Much Ado' as well) and this film is excellent.
All the characters are note perfect, and there is not a single weak performance amongst them.
Although some scenes are swapped around or merged, that helps to show the cohesion of the plot strands and works extremely well.
Characters have a dark as well as a light side; Sir Toby is a classic funny drunk, but he's also a man who is exploiting Sir ... Read More

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Rating: - unforgettable
this is one of my most favourite movies. there are some splendid reviews here already, so i will keep it short.
this is shakespearian comedy with dark undertones. this tale is about the nature of love. wonderful yet terrible love... etc. not everyone wins at the end. The actors are all wonderfully cast, and the landscape and locations are brilliant to. there is also a wonderful balance between the romance, the pangs of unrequitted love, laughs, music, chaos, revenge, etc. and it is all perfect. ... Read More

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Rating: - Twelfth Night
By the way I am not Mr Marc I am his stepdaughter my account does not work at the moment. I must admit that when I first saw this film, it was at school in English. We had a choice MacBeth or twelfth Night 1996. We chose Twelfth Night having already looked at MacBeth in yr7 and found it INCREDIBLY BORING! Twelfth Night however like William Shakespere's "The Tempest" took me by surprise. The film is related to shakespere's life in many ways. One is that Shakespere at his time suffered puritins wanting ... Read More

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Rating: - Most Wonderful
There are many adaptations of the Bard's work out there which fail to do it justice. Happily, this is not one of them. Nunn's casting for this magical piece of cinema is excellent, with Kingsley's mysterious but comical Feste complimenting perfectly the hateful Malvolio (Nigel Hawthorne), corpulant Sir Toby and foppish Sir Andrew Agucheek, ably portrayed by Richard E. Grant.

Sterling though the actors are, it is the female characters which bring this adaptation to life; Bonham-Carter is, ... Read More

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Rating: - Does it justice.
Having loved the play studying it for A Level, I wasn't sure if this version would enhance my fondness for it or tear it to shreds... Thankfully, it was superb: the acting was excellent all round, the period setting worked well - in being vaguely ambiguous - and the suspense and surprise were still there (even after copious watching!). Nigel Hawthorne, Mel Smith (the comedy aspects were excellent and Helena Bonham-Carter were particularly good.
However, I really wanted to mention Feste: always my ... Read More

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