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Hamlet in the Golden Vale (2018)
A Terrific Hamlet
Saw this at a theater in NYC at the Manhattan Film Festival, where it won Best Feature. It's great. A van of actors arrive at a castle, where they immediately transform into an amazing production of Hamlet. So it's a play within a play within a movie. And it really works as a film. The actors speak Elizabethan English so clearly and without artifice that you barely notice it's not fully modern prose. It's exciting as a murder/revenge film, with or without Shakespeare's prose. Run time is two hours, not four, so the text has been cut very intelligently but every word is the original text. The actors are first rate and there's lots of doubling of roles, as Shakespeare had to do with his small company. The film also moves seamlessly between the actors and their roles (you see the actors on break between each act of the play). Bravo to the director and cinematographer.