I was wandering around the Warehouse in the weekend looking for an opportunity to increase the fortunes of Stephen Tindall and reduce my own economic wealth. There's always an opportunity to use the credit card in that shop, and I bought Shakespeare in Love. It was made in the mid nineties, so at the rate of movie production these days it is pretty old. Can you imagine - no digital enhancements in the whole movie!
Gosh, it is still a great movie. Being set so many hundreds of years ago it hasn't aged at all. The acting is still brilliant, and the sets and locations still work brilliantly. I reckon it must have been a fantastic job to get as an actor - most actors have a love of Shakespeare, and in this film they get to do all the best parts of Romeo and Juliet, as well as act a whole nother story which parallels and ties in with the play. The costumes are stunning, and I found the embroidery almost distracting, it was so rich and fascinating.
There were lots of copies at the shop - go and make sure you have this in your collection. For the ultimate accolade is that my husband who generally chooses war movies reckons he not only likes it, he wants to see it again.
Posted by Toni at November 8, 2006 08:41 AM