New York, 2000, and Polonius telling his daughter Ophelia that Hamlet is
too princely for her, while Laertes goes on about her 'chaste treasure'?
Far better to have set it in the real Denmark, say 20 years or more ago.
Still, Maclachnan, Venora & Shepard acquit themselves well and Julia
Stiles is an extraordinarily moving Ophelia (and I've seen dozens). The
final duel is a mess and a muddle, but the presage of Ophelia's suicide
in the swimming pool is masterly. I've no idea how Hamlet, Rosencrantz &
Guildernstern got to England - did they use the QEII? - nor how Hamlet
escaped thence, though of course it would be dead easy these day. The
Baz Luhrmann 'Romeo & Juliet' worked for me, but not, alas, this: but as
a Shakespeare completist I had t