And then the ghost of Hamlet's father appears and says he was poisoned by Claudius What must Hamlet do? He desires the death of Claudius but lacks the impulse to act out. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. His mother, Gertrude, rushes with unseemly speed into marriage with Claudius, her husband's brother.
Hamlet (Branagh), the prince of Denmark, mourns the untimely death of his father. The story provides a melodramatic stage for inner agonies. Branagh's Hamlet lacks the narcissistic intensity of Laurence Olivier's (in the 1948 Academy Award winner), but the film as a whole is better, placing Hamlet in the larger context of royal politics, and making him less a subject for pity. film since "Far and Away" in 1992, and at 238 minutes the second-longest major Hollywood production (one minute shorter than "Cleopatra"). It is the first uncut film version of Shakespeare's most challenging tragedy, the first 70-mm.
version, it has a visual clarity that is breathtaking. His "Hamlet'' is long but not slow, deep but not difficult, and it vibrates with the relief of actors who have great things to say, and the right ways to say them.
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