Alex Thomson's cinematography captures this swank atmosphere in all its gilt-edged glory. In between, the film's many stars parade in velvet and braid through ornate chambers that are built on a cathedral scale. There are torrents of confetti when Gertrude weds Claudius, and a final fencing match on a scale that Rocky

Sometimes resorting freely to unlikely touches, this film has earthquake special effects and a horror-film look when its ghost arrives. This film's preference for bold strokes over gloomy introspection. He makes a dashing figure if not a terribly melancholy Dane, typifying His own performance is the best evidence of all.īranagh remains a great popularizer of Shakespeare and now has the chance to speak some of the most famous lines in the English language as if they had just come to mind. This 'Hamlet,' like Branagh's version of 'Much Ado About Nothing,' takes a frank, try-anything approach to sustaining its entertainment value, but its gambits are most often evidence of Branagh's solid showmanship. Palace plays the role of Elsinore, Branagh holds court throughout a four-hour, 70-millimeter sumptuously appointed production that doesn't often lag. Heading a cast so stellar that majestic Blenheim

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