![]() ![]() Very enjoyable and worth seeing again and again. I also liked the music very much and find some of the tunes quite hummable. The Cornwall setting is lovely, the radiant sunshine, the green leaves and fine buildings are captured gorgeously by the cameras. The last act of the play is difficult to stage well but Nunn gives it a good shot. ![]() The scene that cuts between Feste's song and Viola/Cesario and Orsino playing cards is wonderful, taking in eight of the characters and telling you more about them. The text of the play is changed around but not unnaturally so. Viola, who was shipwrecked, assists the Duke by disguising herself as Cesario and ends up falling in love with the Duke. This play, mainly based on love, begins with Orsino trying to win Olivia’s love. Imelda Staunton brings unusual depth to the character of Maria. Twelfth Night is a play written by Shakespeare. The scene with Orsino in the bathtub is a stock one but she does it beautifully, balancing the humour of the situation with the tenderness and the longing. Imogen Stubbs does the comedy and the drama equally well. I've never seen Feste played that way but it seemed perfect. It is a film to make you smile at the follies of mankind but also their charm. Grappling with Shakespeare is a perilous activity but I thought Trevor Nunn brought out the comedy and the emotions of the story well. It gripped me from the opening gust of rain on a dark night to Feste dancing off into the sunset. Reading other reviews of 'Twelfth Night' it is interesting to see that some people think it is a slow film and others quite fast. ![]()
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