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All Is True

The final act of the world's greatest playwright

6.1 / 10

101 minutes

2018-12-21

English

GB

Actors :

Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Kathryn Wilder, Lydia Wilson, Hadley Fraser, Jack Colgrave Hirst, John Dagleish, Sean Foley, Gerard Horan, Jimmy Yuill, Alex MacQueen, Eleanor de Rohan, Nonso Anozie, Lolita Chakrabarti

Description

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.

Reviews

Stephen Campbell

Stephen Campbell

6/23/2021, 3:58:24 PM

**_A strangely formless and insubstantial love-letter to Shakespeare_** > _There is an vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his_ Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde_, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute_ Iohannes fac totum_, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey._ - Robert Greene; _Greenes G...

Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

6/23/2021, 3:58:36 PM

I must admit, this movie sneaked up on me. It starts out slow, and in fact establishes a fairly low key pace through the film. But there are passionate outbursts and exciting reveals. I almost feel sorry for those impatient viewers who are done in by movies that present complex, finely drawn plots. I can only assume they would also nod off while watching an actual Shakespeare play (as in, "Why don...