Directed by:
Trevor NunnCinematography:
Clive TicknerComposer:
Shaun DaveyCast:
Helena Bonham Carter, Nigel Hawthorne, Imogen Stubbs, Ben Kingsley, Mel Smith, Steven Mackintosh, Nicholas Farrell, Imelda Staunton, Toby Stephens (more)Plots(1)
When a shipwreck separates siblings Viola and Sebastian in a foreign land, each thinks the other is dead, and both embark on a series of romantic misadventures involving deception, cross-dressing, dashing counts, obese alcoholics and a perceptive fool who presides over the entire madcap affair. (official distributor synopsis)
Reviews (1)
Of the Shakespeare films of the 1990s, I remember Zeffirelli's Hamlet and Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream most, though that decade was more dominated by Branagh and Taymor (and Luhrmann, of course). This Twelfth Night: Or What You Will is seemingly much less ambitious, giving opportunities mainly to the romantically melancholic Helena Bonham Carter and the charming Imogen Stubbs, with Ben Kingsley and Toby Stephens being more of a safe bet.
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