Review: Shakespeare's 'Cymbeline' Gets Teleported From The Past, But The Problems Remain The Same
This is a reprint of our review from the 2014 Venice Film Festival. A hamfisted attempt to inject "relevance" into one of Shakespeare’s more unfashionable plays, Michael Almereyda’s “Cymbeline” works best as a cautionary tale concerning the dangers of believing that everything written by The Bard is “timeless.” Laboring under the misconception that the problem with the play as written was the singular lack of Apple products, (“Prithee, hie and away to an iPhone that we may snapchat till the morrow... Читать дальше...