Learning on ScreenLove’s Labour’s Lost
- Synopsis
- Kenneth Branagh’s production of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost filmed as a classic 1930s’ musical.
- Language
- English
- Country
- France; Great Britain; United States
- Medium
- Film; Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 2000
- Duration
- 93 mins; 8,421 feet
Credits
- Director
- Kenneth Branagh
- Producer
- David Barron; Kenneth Branagh
- Cinematographer
- Alex Thomson
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Screenplay
- Kenneth Branagh
- Music
- Patrick Doyle
- Art Direction
- Tim Harvey
- Choreographer
- Stuart Hopps
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Operas and Musicals
- Historical period
- 1930s
- Plays
- Love’s Labour’s Lost
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Budget $13m. The text was heavily cut, an estimated 25% of Shakespeare remaining.
- Figures
- $299.792 US Domestic Gross (Box Office Mojo 2000)
- Reviews
- Crowl, Samuel Shakespeare at the Cineplex: the Kenneth Branagh Era (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003), pp. 37-46.
Rosenthal, Daniel. 100 Shakespeare Films (London: BFI, 2007), p. 96 notes ‘The shifts from 1930s lyrics or newsreel commentary back into lofty Elizabethan metaphor are, however, an insuperable problem. By the time you have readjusted the next musical number may be seconds away. Shakespeare is reduced to filler material’.
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