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Twelfth Night
on DVD (1996)
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| Starring: |
Helena Bonham-Carter, Nigel Hawthorne, Imogen Stubbs, Toby Stephens, Richard E. Grant, Mel Smith, Ben Kingsley, Steven Mackintosh, Estelle Harris, Imelda Staunton |
| Director: |
Trevor Nunn |
| Studio: |
ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time: |
128 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
I'm not apologising, I like them! |
| Genres: |
Drama |
| Languages: |
English |
| Released: |
29/10/2001
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Brief synopsis of Twelfth Night
Trevor Nunn's version of William Shakespeare's classic comedy revolves around Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds herself hopelessly in love with Orsino. But Orsino thinks she's a man, and her predicament worsens when she realizes that Olivia has fallen in love with her. Nunn's film sets the play in the 19th Century and brings out both the ebullient and the melancholy aspects of Shakespeare's story.
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Halliwell's Film Guide
An updated version of Shakespeare's comedy of sexual confusions, set in some unspecified, presumably Edwardian period, in which the farcical elements fare badly and the play's melancholy undercurrent is stressed; it never comes fully to life.
Time Out
Set in a Hardy-esque English countryside, circa 1890, this starts boldly with a shipwreck and scene-setting voice-over...
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Entertainment Weekly
"...[Bonham Carter is] gorgeous, ethereal, and flying high....An epic, all right, but of the heart..."
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