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LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST – Patrick Doyle

March 31, 2000 Leave a comment

Sometimes, a film comes up with a premise so audacious you cannot help but wonder whether it is genius or madness at work. But Kenneth Branagh, who I will always maintain is the only director who can “do” Shakespeare on film today, has attempted something no-one has ever attempted before – and that is to mix the Bard with Broadway. Taking Shakespeare’s notoriously florid language and setting it to the music of Berlin, Gershwin and Porter, Branagh’s Love’s Labour’s Lost is a musical for the modern age, and his own personal attempt to recapture the glory of the MGM spectacular by dishing up a load of star names and hit tunes with a bit of Busby Berkeley and Esther Williams thrown in for good measure. Read more…